Socio-cognitive mindfulness and metacognition are crucial in healthcare services that affect professional quality of life and, in turn, can affect patient outcomes. Socio-cognitive mindfulness relates to embracing novelty in healthcare situations through flexibility and engagement within medical work routines, through using expert executive cognitive control. Despite these psychological...
In England, psychosis incidence is 31.7×100,000 persons per year. Mindfulness-based interventions for psychosis (MBIp) might reduce its symptoms; however, the research outcomes on its effect size (ES) vary considerably. This project aims to ascertain the existing evidence. Eight publications from a pool of over 260 studies were extracted and analysed at meta-analysis for ES as satisfying the...
Wisdom-based Buddhist-derived practices (BDPs) are concerned with transmuting suffering by cultivating insight into the ultimate nature of both the self and reality. Arguably the most important wisdom-based BDP is emptiness (Sanskrit: śūnyatā) that implies that although phenomena are perceptible to the human mind, they do not intrinsically exist. Despite its significance in Buddhism, emptiness...
Background: Ontological addiction theory (OAT) is a novel metaphysical model of psychopathology and posits that human beings are prone to forming implausible beliefs concerning the way they think they exist, and that these beliefs can become addictive leading to functional impairments and mental illness. The theoretical underpinnings of OAT derive from the Buddhist philosophical perspective...