Clínica y Salud
May 14, 2019
Barbara Horrillo Álvarez, Carolina Marín‐Martín, Manuel R. Abuín
5 citations
Beneficial effects of mindfulness meditation (MM) have been observed in many studies, with attention to and awareness of the present moment possibly representing an essential variable. However, adhering to the meditation regimes is poor at times. As such, the effects of MM training on attention and awareness were examined here, and whether the means of recording the practice of MM – using paper...
Clínica y Salud
October 10, 2016
Gonzalo Hervás, Ausiàs Cebolla, Joaquim Soler
65 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions, rooted in old Buddhist practices, have been updated and adapted to the western context. In the present review, the most frequently used mindfulness interventions will be described as well as the psychological mechanisms activated by them. Afterwards, applied studies will be reviewed. First, clinical trials and meta-analytic studies focused on interventions for...
Clínica y Salud
2011
Mañas Mañas Israel, Clemente Franco, Justo Martínez Eduardo
21 citations
The purpose of the current study is to examine the efficacy of a mindfulness training program to reduce the levels of teacher stress and the days of sick leave taken by a group of teachers. The sample comprised 31 teachers of Secondary School Education, who were randomly allocated; 16 of them formed the experimental group and the 15 remaining the control group. The levels of teacher stress were...
Clínica y Salud
2011
Quintana Miguel, Rincón Fernández María Esther
19 citations
Patients affected by fibromyalgia usually suffer pain and depressive symptoms, which cause a significant reduction in their quality of life. In order to relieve this symptomatology, a training program in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was applied to a group of 14 women with fibromyalgia during an eight-week period. The patients showed a significant improvement in the post-treatment...
Clínica y Salud
2010
Pérez-Álvarez Marino, M. García-Montes José, Sass Louis
19 citations
This study describes the contributions that phenomenology can make to our understanding of schizophrenia. It begins by showing that phenomenology is recovering the psychopathological tradition lost after the success of the DSM-III and the establishment of neurobiology as the dominant approach. Its contributions are described in three parts: its conceptualization, evaluation and treatment of...
Clínica y Salud
2010
Lisa Wood, Barkus Emma
1 citation
Aims: The relationship between ecstasy and affective psychological symptoms are still subject to debate. We aimed to examine the relationship between Ecstasy use and self-report depression, anxiety and schizotypy. Design: Data were collected via structured remote self-report questionnaires. Participants: Participants were split into three groups: a control group with no ecstasy use, a light...