Human Development
2011
Philip David Zelazo, Kristen E. Lyons
45 citations
Mindfulness is a way of attending – an attentional practice – that is derived from Asian contemplative traditions but has been secularized (and Westernized) in the context of clinical psychology [e.g., Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002] and the emerging field of contemplative neuroscience [e.g., Lutz, Donne, & Davidson, 2007]. A major impetus for contemporary research on mindfulness was the...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
2011
Mindfulness and the attenuation of post-event processing in social phobia: an experimental investigation.
North American Journal of Medical Sciences
2011
Mindfulness-based stress reduction: a non-pharmacological approach for chronic illnesses.
Cancer Nursing
2011
Experiences of a mindfulness-based stress-reduction intervention among patients with cancer.
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
2011
Developing an observing attitude: an analysis of meditation diaries in an MBSR clinical trial.
J Psychophysiol
2011
Trait Mindfulness Predicts Attentional and Autonomic Regulation of Alcohol Cue-Reactivity.
Health
2011
Michiyo Ando, Takako Natsume, Hiroko Kukihara et al.
77 citations
The primary goal of the study was to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based meditation therapy on the psychological well-being and sense of coherence of nurses with respect to coping with stress. The participants were 28 nurses working in a ward for elderly patients, with 15 included in the intervention group and 13 in the control group. Nurses in the intervention group received two sessions...
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
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...
2011
Susan Wong Po-shan
This doctrinal study demonstrates in what way the ‘Universal Applicability’ of Buddha Dhamma can be reflected in the intervention process in view of the contemporary situation of the Buddhist Mindfulness being integrated as a psychotherapeutic technique. In past few decades, the Western psychotherapists recognize Mindfulness as ‘the heart of Buddhist meditation’ and apply it as an impartial...