

Students learned methods to incorporate those interventions into their psychotherapy/counseling sessions with clients and discovered that mindfulness-specific interventions also helped regulate their own autonomic nervous systems, contributing to decreased anxiety.

The Mindfulness Center at Brown brings together top academics in research with leading. Its first print issue was published in 1940 and has a record of uninterrupted publishing for 80 years. It is a quarterly journal published in January, April, July and October. Students were introduced to mindfulness, meditation, and breathing techniques through lecture, experimental exercises, video clips, and case studies and used the group setting to learn to use those tools to add trauma-informed mindfulness interventions to the clinical techniques they concurrently practiced in field placement. Research has shown that social workers and other helping professionals can make use of the contemplative practices from religion and spiritual disciplines. The health and well-being of the community is our top priority. The Indian Journal of Social Work (IJSW) is a pioneering publication of the social work profession in India, by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

The project introduced mindfulness, meditation, and breathing techniques to 2nd-year master of social work (MSW) students in a group classroom setting and engaged students as they applied those techniques in their internship settings with clients. The purpose of this article is to identify and describe a teaching tool that supports social work student success in the classroom and in field placement.
