Counseling and Family Therapy Scholarship Review
2020
Jason Linder, Jay A. Mancini
In the last three decades, mindfulness and resilience have received extensive scholarly attention. Research has burgeoned and they have both become “buzz words” in the social sciences and mental health fields. That said, they are often presented as unrelated qualities, skills, or states, and few studies and texts have examined their linkages and/or how they complement each other. Masten’s...
Journal of Adolescent and Youth Psychological Studies
2020
Saeed Farhadi Navarudi, Niloufar Tahmorsi, Mastoreh Sedaghat
Background and Aim: entrance exam as a social phenomenon affects the psychological and economic conditions of families. The aim of the present study was the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy on negative spontaneous thoughts and avoidance coping strategies and perceived stress of entrance exam candidates with physical symptoms. Method: The present research method was a semi-experimental...
Journal of Adolescent and Youth Psychological Studies
2020
Atiyeh Karkhaneh, Homa Rezaei
Background and Aim: This study was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive group therapy on reducing smoking and increasing student happiness. Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test and post-test design and a control group. From the statistical population of students of the Faculty of Arts, Azad University, Tehran Branch, a sample...
Applied Family Therapy Journal
2020
SeyedAliAsghar SeyedEbrahimi
Aim: The purpose of this research is the effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness and positive thinking on improving mental health, perfectionism and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in family heads suffering from major depressive disorder. Method: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the control group. The...
2020
Chelsea Latorre
2 citations
The release of the APA (2011) Revised Competency Benchmarks used for evaluation of doctoral-level psychology trainees calls for literature to examine competencies in this population with use of appropriate instrumentation. The recent publication and validation of the Professional Competencies Scale-Revised (Taylor, 2015) allows for researchers to explore factors associated with trainee...
Journal of Adolescent and Youth Psychological Studies
2020
Zahra Sadat Goli, Leila al-Sadat Mirseifi Fard, Fahimeh Akhbari
Background and Aim: Social anxiety is associated with various variables such as mindfulness. Given the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program in improving clinical problems, psychological symptoms, and quality of life of people with social anxiety, and the importance of addressing this variable in their lives, the present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the...
Mindfulness
2020
Oskari Lahtinen, Christina Salmivalli
Abstract: Objectives: The main effects of 8-week mindfulness-based programs (MBP) on anxiety and depression are now supported by reasonably robust evidence. However, few to no studies have looked at whether and how these main effects come to be over the course of the MBP. The goal of the present study was to look at how meditation practice predicted changes in well-being, and vice versa, at a...
The Journal of cardiovascular nursing
2020
Kaitlyn Rechenberg, Lakeshia Cousin, Laura S Redwine
An estimated 6.5 million American adults live with heart failure (HF). Elevated anxiety symptoms may worsen HF symptoms and contribute to decreases in overall quality of life (QOL). Mindfulness has been associated with better psychological health with lower levels of anxiety symptoms. Mindfulness may be a modifiable target for reducing anxiety symptoms and increasing QOL in patients with HF....
Neural Plasticity
2020
Simeng Gu, Yawen Li, Fei Liang et al.
Mindfulness training has gained popularity in the scientific field and has been proposed as an efficient way for emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is designed especially for depressive people in reducing risk of depression relapse and is recommended in national guidelines as a treatment choice for relapse prevention in recurrent depression. The aim of the current...
PLoS One
2020
Tamara Leeuwerik, Kate Cavanagh, Elizabeth Forrester et al.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which includes Exposure and Response (ERP) is a highly effective, gold standard treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Nonetheless, not all patients with OCD significantly benefit from CBT. This has generated interest in the potential benefits of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs), either integrated with CBT, to enhance engagement with ERP...