Child and Adolescent Mental Health
May 1, 2018
Michael J Crowley, Sarah S Nicholls, Deborah McCarthy et al.
Group Mindfulness Therapy (GMT) is a program tailored for adolescents that targets anxiety with mindfulness skills including present moment awareness, mindfulness in everyday life (breathing, eating, walking), body scan, loving-kindness, and self-acceptance. Youth with anxiety may benefit from mindfulness exercises precisely because they learn to redirect their mind, and presumably their...
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
April 30, 2018
Keith A Platt
3 citations
This literature review examines eight peer reviewed studies reporting on the efficacy of mindfulness-based and self-compassion-based interventions for adults diagnosed with substance use disorders. Prevalence of substance use disorders is provided, and relevant definitions are discussed. The syndrome model of addiction is advanced as an etiological explanation, and the search methodology...
Audiology and Speech Research
April 30, 2018
Do-Ryeon Heo, WhaSoo Kim
Purpose: Most stuttering adults use strategies to escape and avoid stuttering to solve stuttering.Those strategies make it more difficult to solve stuttering rather than cure it.The present study aimed to examine how to apply mindfulness as a technique to accept stuttering.Methods: As materials Korean version of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (K-MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
April 30, 2018
Clara Strauss, Laura Lea, Mark Hayward et al.
47 citations
BACKGROUND: Only about half of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) show clinically significant improvement following the recommended therapy, exposure and response prevention (ERP), partly due to poor therapy acceptability. A mindfulness-based approach to ERP (MB-ERP) has the potential to improve acceptability and outcomes. METHODS: This was an internal pilot randomised controlled...
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska sectio J – Paedagogia-Psychologia
April 30, 2018
Anna Błaszczak
1 citation
The paper refers to the problem of stress and burnout experienced by nurses and discusses possibilities of preventing those main causes of decreased job satisfactions. In the elaboration, the sources of stress in the nurse work were presented, as well as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training as a response to those psychosocial difficulties. Studies that demonstrate effectiveness of MBSR...
Scientific Reports
April 26, 2018
C. Wong, B. Yip, T. Gao et al.
Psychological and behavioural interventions may be effective in reducing menopause-related symptoms. This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in reducing menopause-related symptoms by comparing with an active control group, the menopause education control (MEC). Symptomatic peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women with...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
April 26, 2018
Clark Chilson
Abstract “Naikan” 内観 is a self-reflective form of meditation founded by Yoshimoto Ishin 吉本伊信 (1916–1988), who developed it from a lay Shin Buddhist practice called mishirabe身調べ. After Yoshimoto used it to help prisoners in the 1950s, psychiatrists in the 1960s started to use it as a psychotherapy. Today in Japan it is the most popular psychotherapeutic method that originated in Buddhism. Naikan...
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
April 25, 2018
Kislay Kumar, Vinay Pratap Singh, Devesh Kumar et al.
5 citations
Background: Yoga is a traditional technique to conserve and purify body, mind and soul. It is a mind-body bridge which involves relaxation, meditation and a set of physical exercises performed in association with breathing. In this new era of evolution, most of the population are depressed or in stress, irrespective of their age and gender.Methods: This study is performed on 1st yr. medical...
Chronic respiratory disease
April 24, 2018
Linda Perkins-Porras, Muhammad Riaz, Adeoba Okekunle et al.
Psychological distress is common among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study aimed to assess whether a 10-minute mindfulness intervention reduces distress and breathlessness, improves mood and increases mindfulness among hospital inpatients following acute exacerbation of COPD.Fifty patients were recruited following an acute admission. The immediate effects of a...
Psychosocial Intervention
April 24, 2018
Noemí Sansó, Laura Galiana, Amparo Oliver et al.
25 citations
The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of a brief mindfulness training program on mindful attention, self-compassion, and professionals’ quality of life in palliative care teams. A pre-post pre-experimental study was carried out. Thirty-six professionals from palliative care teams from Madrid (Spain) participated in the study. Mindfulness, self-compassion, and professionals’ quality of...