Adult Learning
March 1, 2011
Gene Crumley, Howard G. Schutz
16 citations
The adult learner is typically a motivated student who comes to class prepared to pay attention (Ross-Gordon, 2003). They also come with cognitive and emotional stimuli not related to the course's content, which can be distracting especially at the start of a class or following a break (James, 1892; McDermott, 1977). Ways of dealing with the problem of start-of-class attention, and for that...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
Thorsten Barnhofer
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002) is an eight-week treatment programme combining intensive training in mindfulness meditation and elements of cognitive therapy for depression that was specifically developed for the prevention of relapse in patients with recurrent course of the disorder. This talk will describe the rationale and format of the treatment...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
E.C. Sundin, Edo Shonin, William van Gordon et al.
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in the Eastern world for more than 25 centuries but only recently it has become popular in the West. Today, therapeutic interventions such as ‘Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction’ are used within health services throughout Europe as a means of improving patient wellbeing. Whilst these interventions have proved successful in reducing stress and depression...
Journal of Professional Nursing
March 1, 2011
Developing self-aware mindfulness to manage countertransference in the nurse-client relationship: an evaluation and developmental study.
Psychiatry Information in Brief
March 1, 2011
Carl Fulwiler, Fernando de Torrijos
7 citations
A Spanish translation of this publication is available to download under "Additional Files" below.\nMindfulness can be defined as paying attention to one's inner and outer experiences in a non-judgmental manner from moment to moment (Kabat-Zinn, 2003). This Psychiatry Issue Brief discusses mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a curriculum developed at the University of Massachusetts...
British Journal of Occupational Therapy
March 1, 2011
Holly Hawtin, Cath Sullivan
27 citations
Introduction: This study examined the experiences of mindfulness training for five adults living with rheumatic disease. Method: Focus group data were used to explore the experience and impact of mindfulness training in participants aged between 46 and 69 years diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis. All participants had completed an 8-week Mindfulness-Based...
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
March 1, 2011
Simon N. Young
23 citations
A recent paper in the Archives of General Psychiatry confirms that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) “offers protection against relapse/recurrence on a par with that of maintenance antidepressant pharmacotherapy.”[1][1] It is a tribute to the accumulated wisdom of humankind that a
Oncology nursing forum
March 2011
Yaowarat Matchim, Jane M Armer, Bob R. Stewart
To evaluate and discuss existing studies of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) among breast cancer survivors. Articles published from 1987-2009 were retrieved using MEDLINE®, CINAHL®, Ovid, and Scopus. Key words, including mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness meditation, were combined with breast cancer. The search resulted in 26 articles that were narrowed down to 16 by...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
March 2011
Amit Mohan, Ratna Sharma, Ramesh L Bijlani
The objective of this study was to study the effects of meditation on stress-induced changes in cognitive functions. The study was conducted on 32 healthy adult male student volunteers who had never practiced meditation before the study. The study consisted of practicing 20 minutes of guided meditation and administration of psychologic stress to the subjects. The psychologic stress was...
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
March 1, 2011
The direct and indirect benefits of dispositional mindfulness on self-esteem and social anxiety.