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Feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a school-based mindfulness intervention for urban youth.

Journal of abnormal child psychology October 1, 2010 Tamar Mendelson, Mark Greenberg, Jacinda K Dariotis et al.

Youth in underserved, urban communities are at risk for a range of negative outcomes related to stress, including social-emotional difficulties, behavior problems, and poor academic performance. Mindfulness-based approaches may improve adjustment among chronically stressed and disadvantaged youth by enhancing self-regulatory capacities. This paper reports findings from a pilot randomized...

DOI: 10.1007/s10802-010-9418-x (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Depressive disorder Humans Yoga Feasibility studies +19

A randomized pilot study of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and group cognitive-behavioral therapy for young adults with social phobia.

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology October 2010 Jacob Piet, Esben Hougaard, Morten S Hecksher et al.

Twenty-six young participants, 18-25 years, with social phobia (SP) were randomly assigned to eight 2-hour sessions of group mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and twelve 2-hour sessions of group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in a crossover design with participants receiving treatments in reversed order. Outcome was assessed after treatments, and at 6- and 12-month follow-ups. MBCT...

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00801.x (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Social phobia Cognitive behavior therapy Group therapy Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy +1

The effects of mindfulness‐based group intervention on the mental health of middle‐aged Korean women in community

Stress and Health October 1, 2010 Woo Kyeong Lee, Hee Jeong Bang

AbstractThis study was conducted to develop a mindfulness and self‐compassion enhancement intervention for middle‐aged women who complained of emotional distress and to ascertain whether participation in the mindfulness‐based programme was associated with an increase in psychological well‐being and the improvement of psychological symptoms. The results showed that time by group interactions...

DOI: 10.1002/smi.1303 (opens in new tab)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder: a feasibility trial.

European Psychiatry October 2010 B Weber, Françoise Jermann, Marianne Gex-Fabry et al.

The present open study investigates the feasibility of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in groups solely composed of bipolar patients of various subtypes. MBCT has been mostly evaluated with remitted unipolar depressed patients and little is known about this treatment in bipolar disorder. Bipolar outpatients (type I, II and NOS) were included and evaluated for depressive and hypomanic...

DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.03.007 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab)

Mindfulness-based treatments for co-occurring depression and substance use disorders: what can we learn from the brain?

Addiction October 2010 Judson A. Brewer, Sarah Bowen, Joseph T Smith et al.

Both depression and substance use disorders represent major global public health concerns and are often co-occurring. Although there are ongoing discoveries regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of each condition, common mechanisms and effective treatments for co-occurring depression and substance abuse remain elusive. Mindfulness training has been shown recently to benefit both...

DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02890.x (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab)

Differential effects of mindful breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and loving-kindness meditation on decentering and negative reactions to repetitive thoughts.

Behaviour Research and Therapy October 1, 2010 Greg Feldman, Jeff Greeson, Joanna Senville

Decentering has been proposed as a potential mechanism of mindfulness-based interventions but has received limited empirical examination to date in experimental studies comparing mindfulness meditation to active comparison conditions. In the present study, we compared the immediate effects of mindful breathing (MB) to two alternative stress-management techniques: progressive muscle relaxation...

DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.06.006 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab)

MINDFULNESS—SPECIFIC OR GENERIC MECHANISMS OF ACTION

Addiction September 15, 2010 Carlo C. DiClemente 6 citations

Mindfulness training has become an integral part of treatment approaches for a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. Brewer and colleagues 1 identify rumination and stress coping as potential common etiological components in major depression and substance abuse disorders and then speculate upon how mindfulness coping, specifically attention and acceptance, address these components and...

DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03013.x (opens in new tab)