Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks
October 24, 2026
Susan J. Davis
The Collaborative Wellness Framework (CWF) offers a systems-level model for advancing wellbeing and resilience in schools and communities, derived from insights drawn from a district-wide case study on the implementation of a school-based mindfulness program. Grounded in cross-sector leadership, the CWF integrates insights from three complementary models: Ishimaru’s (2020) Equitable...
medRxiv
October 24, 2026
Vinicius Vieira Neves, Nana Amma O. O. Larbi, Rebecca L. Acabchuk et al.
preprint
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for anxiety symptoms in adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data Sources: CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, SocINDEX, ERIC (EBSCO), and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global were searched from inception to October 2025; identified trial...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 24, 2026
Juan Camilo Vargas-Nieto, Vanesa Castro-Sanabria, Mateo Bernal et al.
preprint
Populations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionate burden of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often exacerbated by conflict, poverty, and limited healthcare infrastructure. The gap between the need for and the availability of mental health services is particularly wide in these settings. Third-wave...
Religions
October 24, 2026
Jinhua Liu, Kang Wang
The same act of attending to breathing may function as a step on a Buddhist path, a stress-regulation technique, or an exercise in a public meditation course. This article asks how the relations that give embodied attention religious and ethical force are reorganized when practice moves across institutions. It first traces how Indic sati/smṛti was rendered through Chinese nian (念) and...
PsyArXiv
October 23, 2026
Christopher Jon Anderson, Steven Jay Lynn
preprint
Decisiveness, the capacity to commit to difficult choices, has traditionally been studied through cognitive and motivational frameworks, leaving the role of one's relationship to inner experience open. Two studies examine dispositional mindfulness, acceptance, and regret sensitivity as predictors of decisiveness. In Study 1 (n = 64), all three significantly predicted decisiveness. In Study 2 (n...
Medicine
October 23, 2026
Asefeh Shirdashtzadeh Kerdabadi, Zeinab Tavakol, Fereshteh Rasti Borujeni et al.
Background: Patients with a wide range of sexual disorders are vulnerable to negative sexual well-being due to complications from breast cancer treatment. This study aimed to investigate the impact of sexual mindfulness-based training on the sexual well-being of women with breast cancer. Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted in 2024 and involved a statistical population of women...
Congresso Brasileiro de Medicina do Estilo de Vida
October 23, 2026
Vitória Prete Bento, Stella de Macedo, Nancy Huang et al.
Introdução: A insônia crônica caracteriza-se por dificuldade persistente para iniciar ou manter o sono, ou por sono não reparador, associada a prejuízos no funcionamento diurno 1,2. O mindfulness consiste na atenção intencional ao momento presente, sem julgamento 3, enquanto a psicoeducação do sono aborda aspectos relacionados à fisiologia e à higiene do sono. Objetivos: Este estudo teve como...
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
October 23, 2026
Fan Peng, Andrea T. Shafer, Sunita Vohra et al.
Adolescence is a sensitive period for emotional and cognitive development, with heightened risk for mental health challenges, particularly in individuals with ADHD and affective disorders. While Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) improves emotion regulation and cognition in healthy populations, its effects in clinically complex adolescents are less understood. This pilot randomized...
OSF Preprints
October 23, 2026
Ivan Ropovik, Jonathan Nicholas Davies, Alessandro Sparacio et al.
preprint
The Standardized Open-source Mindfulness Architecture (SOMA) framework is an open-source research initiative designed to improve methodological rigor and health equity in mindfulness science. This repository hosts the SOMA Library, which contains structurally matched and mechanistically orthogonal audio materials developed by an international committee of research scientists and mindfulness...
Anthropology Now
October 23, 2026
Nabil Sabio Azadi, Gina Athena Ulysse
Defined as assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping, (of ideas, things, people, spirits. For example, fè yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest), rasanblaj’s very linguistic forma...