Patient education and counseling
November 2017
Heidi A Zangi, Liv Haugli
Chronic non-malign pain has a substantial impact on all parts of an individual's life. Mindfulness- and acceptance- based interventions are increasingly offered to help people manage their pain and strengthening their health promoting resources. In this paper, we present a mindfulness- and acceptance-based intervention, the Vitality Training Programme (VTP), to mitigating pain and accompanying...
Patient education and counseling
February 1, 2017
Samantha L Harrison, Annemarie Lee, Roger S Goldstein et al.
To explore the views of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients towards mindfulness for individuals with COPD. A qualitative study design informed by and analyzed using deductive thematic analysis. Twenty HCPs, with at least one year's clinical experience in COPD management and 19 individuals with moderate to severe COPD participated in semi-structured interviews. Analysis revealed seven...
Patient education and counseling
September 2008
Arenda Kieviet-Stijnen, Adriaan Visser, Bert Garssen et al.
This study explores satisfaction and changes in well-being in cancer patients following mindfulness-based stress reduction training. Data were collected in 47 cancer patients before and after the training, and also 1 year later. Standardized questionnaires were used to measure quality of life, joy in life, mood disturbances (depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, and tension), meaning in life and...
Patient education and counseling
September 1995
S W Gunn
A description is presented of the medical beliefs of the totemic people on the Northwest American coast. The principles of Shamanic therapy are analysed. The consequences for therapeutic views by medical schools are discussed.
Patient education and counseling
September 1995
D Sutorius
Laughter is a very special phenomenon. Unfortunately, its (psycho)therapeutic value is underestimated and its transforming force is not used to its full extent. Next to spontaneous laughter, there is also a laughing meditation, a structured exercise of 15 min with 3 stages: stretching, laughing (and/or crying), silence. The laughing meditation can be used as 'adjuvans' in all kinds of therapy...