Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
April 16, 2026
Henrietta Roberts, Nicholas J. Moberly, Katie Wood et al.
The defining feature of emotion regulation is the activation of a goal to influence the trajectory of emotion.Emotion regulation strategies often involve efforts to either decrease negative emotions or increase positive ones and are associated with a range of possible outcomes.Depressive rumination is an emotion regulation strategy involving repetitive negative thinking about oneself, feelings,...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
July 1, 2004
Kirk Warren Brown
112 citations
As mindfulness research advances on a variety of fronts, it has become increasingly important to carefully define and measure the construct.In this commentary, we draw from our recent research experience on these topics in addressing four issues of primary concern to Bishop et al: The nature of mindfulness, the role of acceptance in the phenomenon, the relation between mindfulness and...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2004
Scott R. Bishop, Mark A. Lau, Shauna L. Shapiro et al.
6,266 citations
There has been substantial interest in mindfulness as an approach to reduce cognitive vulnerability to stress and emotional distress in recent years. However, thus far mindfulness has not been defined operationally. This paper describes the results of recent meetings held to establish a consensus on mindfulness and to develop conjointly a testable operational definition. We propose a...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2004
Adele M. Hayes, Greg Feldman
711 citations
Bishop et al. (this issue) propose an operational definition of mindfulness developed by a recent consensus panel. The group provides a solid empirical framework from which to develop measures of mindfulness, and they propose an exciting research agenda. We describe measurement development work from our research group that provides initial support for the proposed consensus definition and that...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2004
Kirk Warren Brown, Richard M. Ryan
552 citations
As mindfulness research advances on a variety of fronts, it has become increasingly important to carefully define and measure the construct. In this commentary, we draw from our recent research experience on these topics in addressing four issues of primary concern to Bishop et al: The nature of mindfulness, the role of acceptance in the phenomenon, the relation between mindfulness and...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2003
Ruth A. Baer
4,203 citations
Interventions based on training in mindfulness skills are becoming increasingly popular. Mindfulness involves intentionally bringing one’s attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment, and is often taught through a variety of meditation exercises. This review summarizes conceptual approaches to mindfulness and empirical research on the utility of...
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
2003
John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, James Williams
215 citations
Evidence suggests mindfulness-based clinical interven-tions are effective. Accepting this, we caution against as-suming that mindfulness can be applied as a generic tech-nique across a range of disorders without formulating how the approach addresses the factors maintaining the disorder in question. Six specific issues are raised: mind-fulness has been found to be unhelpful in some contexts;...