| AMIDA TRUST | Distance Learning |
| BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING BY DISTANCE LEARNING | |
| COURSE OUTLINE | |
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Year One
Module One: Introduction to Buddhist PsychologyUnit one: Introduction to Distance Learning & Buddhist Psychology Unit two: Meeting the world: basic mind models, Avidya as the fundamental problem Unit three: Positive Therapy? How does Buddhist psychology offer a new approach to mental health? Module Two: The Flow of Consciousness Unit four: Models of the mind (2) Unit five: Skandha Cycle (1) basic models of conditioning Unit Six: Skandha Cycle (2) expanded models of conditioning and transformation Module Three: Encountering the World Unit seven: Four Noble Truths: facing reality Unit eight: Working with skandhas; symbol & ritual Unit nine: self-power, other power: non-self theory and liberation Year Two:
Module Four: The therapeutic relationship Unit ten: Beginning relationship; Buddhist diagnostics & opportunities for encounter Unit eleven: A working alliance: ethics as conditions; vows, karma & opportunity Unit twelve: Endings and transformation; the psychology of impermanence Module five: Applications Unit thirteen: working with compulsion & addiction Unit fourteen: psychosis & altered states Unit fifteen: Celebrating difference Module Six: Life Paths Unit sixteen: Life journeys and developmental psychology Unit seventeen: Ancestry, families and history as conditions Unit eighteen: Community and sangha, beyond individual psychology |