Guidelines for Mindfulness Activity project

Task:

1. Design and describe a mindfulness activity appropriate for use in a personal or work-related context. This is a proposed activity and you do not carry it out in real life.

2. Draw on the material studied over the module to create a bespoke mindfulness activity and write it up as a report. There is no limit on the word count. Include a Bibliography.

3. Describe the activity clearly, so that the reader could replicate it if they wished. Explain the rationale for your idea i.e. the personal or professional context and relevance. You will have time during one of your workshops to develop your ideas and get feedback. There will also be an opportunity to share your finished idea to the group during the last workshop.

If it is helpful you may use subheadings e.g. Background, Rationale, Theory, Setting or context, Plan, Purpose, Source material, and so on. You can also include images if you wish.

4. Describe the psychodynamic perspective in psychology.  Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective, while including evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

5. Describe the behavioral perspective in psychology. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective, while including evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

6. Describe the cognitive perspective in psychology. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective, while including evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

7. Describe the physiological (biological) perspective in psychology. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective, while including evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

8. Describe the humanistic perspective in psychology. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective, while including evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

9. Identify the differences between each of the perspectives in psychology (psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and humanistic). Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

10. Identify the major cognitive changes that take place across the lifespan. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

11. Identify the major social changes that take place across the lifespan. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

12. Identify the major emotional changes that take place across the lifespan. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

13. Describe the theories of attachment. Highlight their importance to (a) child development, and (b) later life choices and behaviors.  Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

14. Describe the principles of learning theory. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

15. Explain how the principles of learning can be used to understand and manage behavior. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.

16. Discuss how the psychological theory covered in this Introduction to Psychology for Counselling module can be applied to counseling practice. Include evidence from psychological theory and research literature in your answer.