Early Intervention in Psychiatry
July 1, 2024
Amanda Taylor, Kathleen Wright, Rachel M Roberts et al.
4 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions have been tested as preventive programs for childhood internalizing difficulties, but most research has been at a 'universal' level with small to null effects. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) has similar effects to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) when used as a small-group, targeted preventive program. Knowledge gaps include the...
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
January 28, 2020
Nicole Snaith, Philippa Rasmussen, Tim Schultz et al.
The aim of the study was to understand the perspectives of mental health consumers, staff, and yoga teachers on the characteristics of a yoga-based intervention to be developed for consumers with a long-term mental health condition, in addition to anxiety and/or depression. Two focus groups were held with mental health consumers (n = 8), two focus groups with mental health staff (n = 13) from a...
Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
December 2018
Michael Proeve, Rebekah Anton, Maura Kenny
The tendency to experience shame or guilt is associated differentially with anxiety and depression, with shame being associated with greater psychopathology. Correlational studies have shown self-compassion to be related to lower shame and rumination, and mindfulness-based interventions increase self-compassion. Therefore, mindfulness-based interventions may decrease shame. This pilot study...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
August 2018
Nicole Snaith, Tim Schultz, Michael Proeve et al.
The aim of the study was to examine the demographic and practice characteristics of current yoga participants and assess their levels of mindfulness, self-compassion, stress, anxiety, depression and wellbeing and implications for designing a yoga intervention. A web-based survey was administered to South Australian yoga teachers and students from September 2014 to February 2015. Results showed...
Dreaming
September 1, 2017
Denholm Jay Adventure-Heart, Paul Delfabbro, Michael Proeve et al.
28 citations
Lucid dreaming is a learnable skill and has a wide range of potential applications. However, research in this area has been limited by a lack of effective and reliable lucid dream induction techniques. The present study provides a thorough investigation into 3 of the most promising cognitive lucid d
Psychological Reports
January 6, 2017
Denholm J Adventure-Heart, Michael Proeve
115 citations
An experiment involving 115 undergraduate students (74.8% females; mean age = 20.5 years, SD = 4.3) was conducted to explore effects of meditation on social connectedness, nature connectedness, and affect. Participants listened to one of three brief guided meditation Mp3 recordings via the internet, which involved mindfulness meditation (MM), loving-kindness meditation (LKM), or progressive...
Consciousness and Cognition
May 1, 2015
Denholm J Aspy, Paul Delfabbro, Michael Proeve
There are two methods commonly used to measure dream recall in the home setting. The retrospective method involves asking participants to estimate their dream recall in response to a single question and the logbook method involves keeping a daily record of one's dream recall. Until recently, the implicit assumption has been that these measures are largely equivalent. However, this is challenged...
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
2014
Hannah Woods, Michael Proeve
The tendency to experience shame or guilt is associated differentially with anxiety, depression, and substance abuse, with shame being associated with greater psychopathology. Recent interventions designed to decrease shame emphasize mindfulness or self-compassion. This study investigated correlational relationships of shame-proneness and guilt-proneness with mindfulness and with...