Abstract This study examines long-term changes in educators’ mental health skills (mindfulness, self-compassion, and self-efficacy) and mental health outcomes (stress, anxiety, and depression) following participation in a mindfulness-based intervention implemented as part of a whole-school approach in compulsory schools. Educators from five schools participated in a non-randomized longitudinal...
Objectives: Over the past decade there has been an increasing interest in exploring self-compassion as a related and complementary construct to mindfulness. Increases in self-compassion may predict clinical outcomes after MBCT and cultivation of compassion toward self and others is central to CFT. This pilot study compared the impact of MBCT applying implicit self-compassion instructions and...