Center For Mindfulness Fellowship Volunteer - Cambridge Health Alliance
Clinical Support Track - Mindfulness Fellowship Volunteer
Established in 2014, The Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC) is part of the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) healthcare system, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) teaching hospital. Operating under the CHA Department of Psychiatry, CMC is a research, training, and clinical center, working to integrate evidence-based mindfulness and compassion practices into primary care, mental health, and outpatient healthcare settings. Our offices are within CHA’s Malden, MA location.
In the clinical support track, the fellow will assist with developing and implementing groups in the Mindful Mental Health Service - clinical treatments that bring Mindfulness Practices into insurance-backed Primary Care and Integrated Health settings.
To bring a more holistic approach into the American healthcare system is a big job, and needs people with vision and determination, as there are many obstacles. This is a radically innovative program developing healthcare that helps CHA's patients and practitioners increase their sense of control over their health, gain self-efficacy in the face of stress, and learn to treat themselves and others with greater compassion when things get tough... all in a real-life clinical setting with a diverse patient population in a sustainable way, not in a brief laboratory experiment with lots of exclusions.
We engage with people at many different levels within the system, and offer robust intensive programs like Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Training for Primary Care, alongside introductory groups and specific groups for people with trauma, substance use, or severe mental illness, which are aimed at those just beginning to see how practice may help them meet their challenges.
The clinical support track may be a particularly good fit for people interested in careers in healthcare like medicine, psychology, social work, counseling, nursing, public health, community health, mindfulness/compassion teaching, etc.