Stress and the Relaxation Response: The Fundamentals of Mind Body Medicine

This interactive 4-week course provides valuable, evidence-based insights on the basic principles of mind body medicine. Enhance your clinical practice by helping your patients understand the science of how stress impacts health.

The course provides an overview of mind/body interactions and a deeper understanding of how mind body therapies decrease stress and enhance well-being. It strengthens your knowledge and clinical skill set for recognizing early warning signs, weighing the relative risks of various conditions, and ultimately helping your patients alleviate stress and either prevent or relieve medical conditions.

This is the first in BHI’s three-part online course catalogue and a requirement for participation in a SMART Implementation Training.

Next online course begins: April 3, 2017

It also features interactive discussion boards and weekly call-in hours with world-renowned faculty from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, including Mind Body Medicine pioneer Dr. Herbert Benson. Research shows that stress is a contributing factor in many common conditions and diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, pain and fatigue syndromes as well as mood disorders. Engage faculty with questions about your clinical challenges and cases, and bridge the gap between the science underlying the principles of mind body medicine and applying that evidence to clinical practice to help patients tackle their serious health issues.

Course assignments include online lectures, recommended readings, interactive discussion forums, and weekly conference calls with faculty and all participants. The course content is 100% mobile-friendly so you can participate whenever your schedule allows. New course assignments are released each week, and you can finish the preceding week’s materials at any time to unlock the next week’s materials.

This four-week online course, “Using Mind Body Techniques in Your Health Care Practice” provides CME/CE credits, and is appropriate for both beginners and those with some experience in eliciting the relaxation response.

The course provides both a broad and deep look at the many methods to elicit the relaxation response. Participants learn how to build their own meditation practice along with effective approaches for instructing their clients/patients to do the same.