Description

Challenges in attaining well-being and happiness are concerns for many individuals. Utilizing evidence-based strategies, this micro-course focuses on practical skills for increasing well-being and happiness. The basic, empirically supported strategies taught in this micro-course include wellness practices and psychological flexibility. These evidence-based strategies have been demonstrated in replicated research to promote higher levels of well-being. The practices in this micro-course are taught in a clear, nontechnical manner that learners can immediately implement in their lives. In addition, learners will encounter experiential exercises and knowledge checks to strengthen skills and application of material.

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this micro-course, you will be able to:

Identify healthy sleep hygiene practices and ways to implement them in daily life.
Define eudaimonic happiness and how to apply this concept as a target for improved well-being.
Describe the three pillars of psychological flexibility and ways to implement them in daily life to increase well-being and happiness.

Eligibility

Must be 18 or older

Refund Policy

You will have 24 hours, or until you receive your completion certificate, to request a full refund after purchase, whichever comes first. No hidden fees. All books and materials are included with purchase.

Faculty Bio

Dr. Sidney Shaw

Dr. Sidney Shaw has been a mental health counselor since 2002, working with adults, adolescents, and families. His clinical experience includes working in rural community mental health in Alaska, school counseling, adventure-based counseling, medical clinic settings for native peoples, and private practice. He has conducted trainings and presentations at national, regional, state, and local levels and was selected as the keynote speaker for a state counseling association annual conference. He is a published author in numerous peer-reviewed journals and also published a professional video on cultural humility in counseling. Dr. Shaw has been a core faculty member in Walden’s MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program since 2014.

Curriculum

How to Increase Well-Being
Pathways to increased well-being in life are not total mysteries. Indeed, there are evidence-based practices one can use to promote well-being. This training will illuminate an evidence-based pathway for increased well-being.
What Is Happiness?
Part of the problem of pursuing happiness is how it is commonly defined. Experiencing joyful emotions all the time is not a definition of happiness that is attainable, nor one that promotes a well-lived life. Understanding and learning skills to live in accord with eudaimonia, a term used by Greek philosophers to capture happiness, can promote increased well-being.
Simple, Everyday Skills
Through brief lectures, experiential exercises, and learning checks, you will learn and practice concrete skills that improve well-being. From guidelines to promote improved sleep to skills for integrating psychological flexibility in daily life, you will expand your repertoire of well-being practices.

Accreditation

Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4546. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Successful completion of this micro-course provides 1 NBCC clock hour; partial credit will not be offered.

ACEP contact information:

100 Washington Ave. S Suite 1210, Minneapolis MN, 55401
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.waldenu.edu

Features

Practical Skills

Learn skills that can be immediately implemented in daily life to strengthen well-being.

Flexible Learning Exercises

Learn through concise experiential exercises to practice.

Values-Based Learning and Living

Clarify your most important values and learn to orient your daily life to them.

Awards

Micro-Course Badge for Practices for Cultivating Increased Well-Being and Happiness

$45.00

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1Add course to cart
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3Register for course
4Make payment and submit application
5Start learning

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Who is this for

This training is applicable to a wide audience of adults. Improving well-being and happiness is a common and universal aim in life that is relevant to people of diverse backgrounds.