The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
September 1, 2010
Anthony D G Marks, Donna J Sobanski, Donald W Hine
Objective: This study examined the moderating effects of dispositional rumination and mindfulness on the relationship between recent life hassles and adolescent mental health (operationalized as symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress). Method: Data collected from a sample of 317 Australian high school students comprised an inventory of recent life hassles, measures of dispositional...
Mindfulness
September 1, 2010
David S Black
Scientific knowledge of human health continues to grow substantially through publication in empirical journals. These journals, which serve as the warehouses of scientific knowledge, continue to publish vast amounts of empirical information. This abundance of information, which promotes an understanding of and advances in human health, is also a precursor of information overload that can result...
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
September 1, 2010
C. Gross, M. Kreitzer, William Thomas et al.
Context Patients who have received solid organ transplants continue to experience a myriad of complex symptoms related to their underlying disease and to chronic immunosuppression that reduce the quality of life. Beneficial non-pharmacologic therapies to address these symptoms have not been established in the transplant population. Objective Assess the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Stress...
New Directions for Community Colleges
September 1, 2010
Jacqueline M. Griswold
5 citations
Abstract This chapter describes ways in which contemplative practices are used in a human services education program to help students integrate self‐care into their lives.
New Directions for Community Colleges
September 1, 2010
Dan Huston
AbstractCommunication concepts can be viewed as internal and external influences on our behavior that typically have an unconscious impact on us. Mindfulness meditation can help us become more aware of these influences as they occur moment to moment, allowing us to observe our emotional reactions to them and enabling us to break free of habitual patterns of behavior, thus broadening our...
New Directions for Community Colleges
September 1, 2010
Kate Garretson
AbstractBecause learning to meditate shares important qualities with learning to be a better reader and writer—for example, dispassionate noticing, becoming more aware of inner processes, a faith in inner wisdom, effort made with a light touch, the cultivation of a practice through simple, regular doing—practice in mindfulness meditation was used to help incoming community college ESL students...
Neurology
September 1, 2010
MS quality of life, depression, and fatigue improve after mindfulness training: a randomized trial.
Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi
September 2010
Yunesik Kang
Emotional support and a stress management program should be simultaneously provided to clients as effective preventive services for healthy behavioral change. This study was conducted to review various relaxation and meditation intervention methods and their applicability for a preventive service program. The author of this paper tried to find various relaxation and meditation programs through...
The Medical Journal of Australia
September 1, 2010
Greg Sharplin, Simeon B W Jones, Barbara Hancock et al.
48 citations
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of an 8-week structured mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) program on individuals experiencing distress as a consequence of cancer. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective study of 16 participants with a history of cancer and five carers of people with cancer recruited from August 2008 to February 2009 through calls to the Cancer Council South...
International Journal of Lifelong Education
September 1, 2010
Terry Hyland
36 citations
Although it has been given qualified approval by a number of philosophers of education, the so‐called ‘therapeutic turn’ in education has been the subject of criticism by several commentators on post‐compulsory and adult learning over the last few years. A key feature of this alleged development in recent educational policy is said to be the replacement of the traditional goals of knowledge and...