Counselling Psychology Quarterly
August 11, 2026
Ruta Adamone, David Goss, Savin Bapir‐Tardy
This study explores how psychologists without formal mindfulness training integrate mindfulness into individual psychotherapy. Despite growing interest, limited research has examined integration, particularly by practitioners without formal mindfulness qualifications. Ten HCPC-registered counselling and clinical psychologists, practising in the UK participated in semi-structured interviews...
Counselling Psychology Quarterly
February 26, 2025
Vivien Iacob, Cláudia Carmo, Soraia Garcês et al.
1 citation
This research aimed to develop a Portuguese version of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI) short form and investigate its psychometric properties through two complementary studies. The first study included a sample of 337 participants. It analyzed the scale’s internal consistency, reliability, and factorial validity by conducting an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis using a...
Counselling Psychology Quarterly
July 5, 2019
Victoria L. Bowers
ABSTRACT Transcending the dark side of life and overcoming negative emotions may lead a person to mature happiness, characterized by inner peace and harmony. Such happiness can be found even in times of suffering through the pursuit of meaning and spirituality. This paper argues that nature happiness involves the spiritual aspects of being human, such as deep appreciation of life, finding joy...
Counselling Psychology Quarterly
April 10, 2017
Simon B. Goldberg
14 citations
Mindfulness has become an increasingly visible part of the landscape in psychology and medicine in the past several decades. Only recently has this same interest in mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions appeared in counseling psychology. This article provides a brief synopsis of the mindfulness literature and explores the theoretical, ideological, and practical overlap between core...
Counselling Psychology Quarterly
December 1, 2008
Patrizia Collard, Nadav Avny, Ilona Boniwell
105 citations
This study aimed to address the gap in the literature considering empirical evidence in support of the assumption that Mindfulness is the mediating factor in the positive outcomes of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programmes, and to further examine the link between Mindfulness and Subjective Well Being. The research question was whether...