Contemporary European History
May 4, 2022
Isabel Richter
1 citation
This essay focuses on West Germany as exemplary global-local intersection of the spiritual turn in the long 1960s. It shows how spirituality as practices and beliefs seeking a closer connection with the divine within or outside religious groups experienced a multifaceted renaissance in the countercultures of the long 1960s. In this spiritual quest contemporary explorations in the expansion of...
PLoS One
May 4, 2022
Nhat Tram Phan-Le, Linda Brennan, Lukas Parker
There are on-going debates about what is and is not 'mindfulness'. These debates are stifling rigorous academic research as scientific precision is a precursor to shared meaning. While mindfulness is a growing field of research, these divergent and conflated meanings are limiting deeper interdisciplinary research. Interventions designed in one practice context may not be useful in other...
Transcultural Psychiatry
May 3, 2022
Sunghyun Hong, Maureen D Satyshur, Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Depression stigma is a potential barrier to engagement in and efficacy of depression treatment. This pilot study examined the association of mindfulness with depression stigma among participants in an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention for depressive symptoms. Thirty-one African American women with depressive symptoms were recruited from an urban Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)...
May 3, 2022
Ceci Westbrook, Janine M. Dutcher, Susan Kusmierski et al.
preprint
Uncontrollable worry is a hallmark of generalized anxiety disorder and a transdiagnostic feature of psychopathology. Mindfulness-based strategies show promise for treating worry, but neural mechanisms of mindful disengagement remain incompletely characterized. We recruited 40 participants with clinically significant worry to undergo fMRI while engaging in real-time, idiographic worry and...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 2, 2022
Edina Török, Szabolcs Kéri
11 citations
Individuals with high schizotypal traits are less able to observe, describe, and monitor inner feelings, thoughts, and experiences, commonly referred to as mindfulness and mentalization. High schizotypy is also associated with impaired working memory (WM). However, the relationship among mindfulness, mentalization, WM, and schizotypal traits is unknown. Three hundred individuals from the...
Psychological Reports
May 2, 2022
Thomas Mösler, Sandra Poppek, C. Leonhard et al.
Self-Practice/Self-Reflection (SP/SR) is an aspect of therapist training and professional development aimed at enhancing therapy skills, empathy, wellbeing, and resilience in the ultimate furtherance of client outcomes. For many decades, intensive SP/SR has been a required part of therapist training in many countries but relatively little is known about the effect of SP/SR. Studies have found...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
May 1, 2022
Ho-Jin Shin, Sung-Hyeon Kim, Hwi-young Cho et al.
Female caregivers of people with disabilities are burdened physically and mentally. To improve these symptoms, an intervention that is easy to apply and has fewer side effects, such as natural healing, has been proposed, but the effect of healing using marine resources is unclear until now. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of meditation accompanied with stabilization...
The FASEB Journal
May 1, 2022
Thomas Basala, Brigitte Morin, John Durocher
According to the CDC, most children and about 1 in 3 adults in the United States fail to reach their age group recommended quantity of sleep. Recently, non‐pharmacological sleep aids, such as meditation, have gained popularity. However, to our knowledge there is no research data that compares sleep metrics or psychological well‐being between those that meditate in the morning vs. in the...
Brain Science
May 1, 2022
Mikell Bursky, Dakota A. Egglefield, Sophie Schiff et al.
Depression is often associated with co-occurring neurocognitive deficits in executive function (EF), processing speed (PS) and emotion regulation (ER), which impact treatment response. Cognitive training targeting these capacities results in improved cognitive function and mood, demonstrating the relationship between cognition and affect, and shedding light on novel targets for...
Holistic Nursing Practice
May 1, 2022
Masoomeh Izadi, Fatemeh Ghaedi-Heidari, Tabandeh Sadeghi et al.
Mothers experience posttraumatic stress disorder with the birth of a premature neonate. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction on posttraumatic stress of mothers with premature neonates in Iran. Sixty mothers with premature neonates were selected by using convenience sampling and stratified random allocation. Mindfulness-based stress...
BJPsych international
May 1, 2022
Sivasubramoney Krishnan
This article describes the author's discovery of mindfulness and its method and describes the bias against mindfulness even at the beginning of the 21st century. The short essay also throws light on recent developments in mindfulness training and practice in the world and in the state of Kerala in South India.
Open heart
May 2022
Tarun Kumar Mittal, Emma Evans, Alison Pottle et al.
The study evaluated the feasibility of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in patients with non-cardiac chest pain by assessing their willingness to participate and adhere to the programme, and for these data to help further refine the content of MBCT for chest pain. This prospective 2:1 randomised controlled trial compared the intervention of adapted MBCT as an addition to usual care...
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
May 2022
Amanda J Shallcross, Zoe T Duberstein, Sarah H Sperber et al.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a promising intervention for reducing depressive symptoms in individuals with comorbid chronic disease, but the program's attendance demands make it inaccessible to many who might benefit. We tested the feasibility, acceptability, safety, and preliminary efficacy of an abbreviated, telephone-delivered adaptation of the in-person mindfulness-based...
JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology
May 2022
Leina S Alrabadi, Anne Dutton, Anahita Rabiee et al.
Psychological and life stressors may impact autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) disease activity and increase relapse risk. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a validated course that reduces stress reactivity, and improves stress and emotion regulation. This single-arm exploratory pilot study of adult patients with AIH aimed to define the impact of an 8-week MBSR program on quality of life,...
Mindfulness
May 2022
Chelsea J Siwik, Kala M. Phillips, Irene Litvan et al.
To examine the preliminary effects of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program in the management of biopsychosocial stress-related changes associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) among patient/caregiving-partner dyads. PD patient/caregiving-partner dyads (N = 18) early in the disease trajectory were recruited from a university-affiliated movement disorders clinic and were...
فصلنامه علمی و پژوهشی اعتیادپژوهی
May 1, 2022
Paria Shakibayi, Parinaz Ghayuomi
ذهن بر مبتني درماني شناخت اثربخشي کيفيت و اضطراب سطح بر آگاهي افيوني مواد مصرف اختالل با زنان زندگي
European journal of preventive cardiology
May 1, 2022
Victor Hugo Lucas Neves
Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background It has been well established that the prevalence of depression is higher in people with cardiovascular disease (CVD), leading to a significantly worse prognosis after coronary syndromes. A recent individual patient data meta-analysis has shown that Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) such as Mindfulness-Based...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
May 1, 2022
Paul Alan Arkin Alvarado-García, Marilú Roxana Soto-Vásquez, Luis Enrique Rosales-Cerquín
Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, mental health begins to be affected. In this sense, practical and low-cost solutions are necessary to minimize the impact on the population. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of a mindfulness-based online intervention for mental health during times of COVID-19. Method: A quasi-experimental study was carried out with pre-test and...
Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
May 1, 2022
Jeanne M Zanca, Christine Gilchrist, Caroline E Ortiz et al.
To assess the feasibility and potential benefits of clinical meditation and imagery (CMI) for people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) and chronic pain. Pilot randomized, controlled trial. Outpatients with SCI in the United States. 24 adults with chronic SCI (>1 year) and a >3 month history of pain rated ≥4/10 on average over the last week. 4-week program of once-weekly 2-hour group...
Психолог
May 1, 2022
Sergei Vladimirovich Kukharenko
The subject of this study is to identify the connection between the experience obtained in lucid dreams and the experience of meditation. The object of the study is the experience that accompanies the state of awareness (Pali-sati). In the article, the author presents the results of a study aimed at establishing the connection between the experience obtained in lucid dreams and the experience...