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The NSF INTERN program providing graduate students immersive internship

experiences outside of academia.

Through this internship at Boeing I've gained a better understanding of the challenges that Boeing faces

when it comes to manufacturing aerospace parts, which gives me a better idea of how to implement my research

in piezospectroscopy to meet industry needs

This was not just significant for her own professional and scientific goals but

also for the students that she mentors here at UCF

Today the majority of masters and PhD degree holders in stem

work in industry or government not in academia

The NSF INTERN program aligns perfectly with our goal to expand

experiential learning for our graduate students

students while supporting the needs of our industry partners

It does that by supporting research focused internships at a diverse spectrum of host

organizations in industry, small business, the nonprofit sector, mostly government research labs

At the CDC I was able to work alongside leading researchers in the public health arena

tackling urgent problems relevant to both the CDC's more applied mission

and my own fundamental research

I've been working with the Cape Cod commercial fishermen's Alliance

At the Army Corps of Engineers

at the USGS

at Los Alamos National Laboratory

the Upstate freshwater Institute, a small local science-based not-for-profit organization

And the program benefits academic institutions and host organizations too

It' been a great experience for us in terms of developing

better connections with faculty and also opportunity to explore future research

collaborations with local university

It was also good for our lab because we expanded our collaboration and extended our research in different directions

Through the project we evolved a collaborative research program

on manufacturing with the GM researchers

I was able to gather both technical and organizational skills

needed to develop me further in my career

Work with many different types of scientists in the industry

So I really had and opportunity to learn about the technical difficulties of scaling up

and applying the new technique I developed in the lab to real industrial problems

I've learned so much over the past four months and four months and I'm really looking

forward to the next two month of my program here

And so overall this grant has really allowed me the

opportunity to learn a lot of things that I feel like I would not have

learned without collaborating with industry

my appointment at the CDC not only significantly shortened the time to move current research from concept to

completion but also inspired many new research questions at the crossroads of

fluid mechanics and biology- questions that I hope to answer in my own lab one day

I wish all of my students get some kind of industrial exposure during grad

school. I really thank the NSF and INTERN program for making this happen.

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Online MBCT for Anxiety & Depression - Duration: 7:02.

Welcome.

My name is Peter Strong.

I'm a professional online therapist and I offer psychotherapy via Skype that is based

on Mindfulness Therapy.

I offer online MBCT or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

The style of therapy that I've developed is called Mindfulness Therapy which is based

on and MBCT but it takes it a step further.

So mindfulness is a very effective tool that is having tremendous impact on psychotherapy

and on wellness in general.

It's a way of developing a conscious awareness of what's happening in the mind and establishing

a relationship that is non-reactive with whatever thoughts or emotions arise in the mind.

So we can see it thought, we can become aware of it, but not become identified with it or

become reactive toward the thought with grasping or aversion.

So we can hold thoughts and emotions in our awareness without becoming overwhelmed by

them.

And that's the primary contribution of mindfulness.

The CBT version takes this a stage further and then begins to help you evaluate these

thoughts and judge if they are rational or not.

Most of the time we blindly accept generalizations and black and white thinking and so on, that

are not really real.

They just become thought patterns that we become attached to and that can create problems.

Rumination in depression is an example of that.

Catastrophizing and excessive worrying are big factors in anxiety as well, or OCD.

So challenging the thoughts and then of course trying to replace them with more positive

and functional thoughts is the primary objective of CBT.

Mindfulness is about not becoming seduced if you like by reactive thoughts and CBT is

about looking at how to change those thought patterns to more positive ones.

Now, Mindfulness Therapy which takes MBCT to a stage further looks ar another very important

factor that sometimes is overlooked, and that is the emotional charge of thoughts, the emotion

itself.

So many intrusive thoughts, particularly in depression and anxiety and OCD, have a very

strong emotional charges.

It's very difficult to simply dismiss those thoughts because they are so intense emotionally.

So working with that emotional charge is the main contribution of Mindfulness Therapy.

This is a system that I have been working on for over 20 years now.

So the same kind of ideas apply.

We first of all cultivate mindfulness, which means recognizing those emotionally charged

thoughts, but then establishing a relationship based on mindfulness, non-reactivity with

those thoughts, but then looking at a response to those thoughts that can help them heal

effectively.

So mindfulness therapy is very focused on healing.

So what is it about that thought that has such an intense emotional charge that keeps

it there.

It is clearly stuck, essentially, and we need to help free that thought of that emotional

charge in order for it to resolve and go away.

So that involves establishing another aspect of mindfulness which is called metta, m.e.t.t.a,

in Buddhism.

This is a quality of friendliness or loving kindness or compassion.

We need to develop a compassionate relationship with our emotions if they are to heal and

that's a very, very important part of Mindfulness Therapy.

It is developing this internal compassion towards our own emotions and thoughts.

If we can hold them in in this way and help them heal by our compassion and our friendliness

and our interest in their welfare then those emotions will heal.

And when the emotions heal then that takes away the emotional charge of those intrusive

thoughts and they tend to dissipate and quite naturally become replaced by more positive

thoughts because there's nothing keeping them there.

They are no longer stuck in the mind.

So this is a brief overview of Mindfulness Therapy and online MBCT.

If you'd like to learn more do please go to my website and reach out to me by email if

you would like to explore the possibility of doing online MBCT with me.

Thank you.