Mindfulness
February 23, 2017
Lisa-Marie Emerson, Anna F Leyland, K. Hudson et al.
School teachers report high levels of stress which impact on their engagement with pupils and effectiveness as a teacher. Early intervention or prevention approaches may support teachers to develop positive coping and reduce the experience and impact of stress. This article reviews research on one such approach: mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) for school teachers. A systematic review and...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
February 23, 2017
Kenji Sanada, Marta Alda Díez, Montserrat Salas Valero et al.
Only a small number of articles have investigated the relationship between mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and biomarkers. The aim of this systematic review was to study the effect of MBIs on specific biomarkers (cytokines, neuropeptides and C-reactive protein (CRP)) in both healthy subjects and cancer patients. A search was conducted using PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO and the Cochrane...
Revista Colombiana de Psicología
February 22, 2017
Luís Armando Oblitas Guadalupe, Rosmery Turbay Miranda, Kelly-Johana Soto Prada et al.
12 citations
El presente estudio se realizó a través de un abordaje metodológico pre-experimental con medidas de tipo pre-test y post-test. Participaron 52 trabajadores de la Universidad de la Costa (Barranquilla, Colombia), quienes asistieron por invitación al taller de ocho horas de mindfulness y qi gong para el mejoramiento de la salud, bienestar psicológico, satisfacción vital y reducción del estrés....
Psyke & Logos
February 21, 2017
A. M. Nielsen, K. Bærentsen
De senere år har der været en kraftig stigning i praksisformer, der har fokus på bevidsthed og opmærksomhed og på deres regulering. Mængden af kursusaktiviteter i yoga, meditation, mindfulness og lignende aktiviteter er stadig stigende, ligesom anvendelsen af sådanne praksisser inden for psykologisk behandling, arbejdsliv og uddannelse er i vækst, og forskningen i virkningerne af disse...
Psyke & Logos
February 21, 2017
Jacob Piet
Mindfulness-based clinical interventions have become popular and broadly implemented within several university clinics and hospitals. The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is supported by evidence from numerous clinical trials and meta-analyses. However, with the increase inpopularity and greater demand, the central risk is that...
Papeles del Psicólogo
February 21, 2017
Ausiàs Cebolla, Angel Enrique, David Alvear et al.
Although mindfulness is included in many positive psychology manuals as a “positive” technique, the implications of its use have scarcely been developed and the relationship between mindfulness and human well-being has barely been researched. Analyzing the main strengths of the two fields, the possibilities for their integration and the potential contradictions between their messages is...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 20, 2017
Christopher James Lyddy, Darren Jason Good
40 citations
Mindfulness at work has drawn growing interest as empirical evidence increasingly supports its positive workplace impacts. Yet theory also suggests that mindfulness is a cognitive mode of "Being" that may be incompatible with the cognitive mode of "Doing" that undergirds workplace functioning. Therefore, mindfulness at work has been theorized as "being while doing," but little is known...
European Psychiatry
February 8, 2017
Jan Sundquist, Karolina Palmér, Lars-Åke Johansson et al.
40 citations
BACKGROUND: The need for psychotherapy in primary health care is on the increase but individual-based treatment is costly. The main aim of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) was to compare the effect of mindfulness-based group therapy (MGT) with treatment as usual (TAU), mainly individual-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), on a broad range of psychiatric symptoms in primary care...
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
February 7, 2017
Françoise Roy Malis, Thorsten Meyer, Mechthild M Gross
Applications of mindfulness during the perinatal period have recently been explored and appear to offer a decrease in stress, anxiety and depression during this period. However, it still remains unclear what practical use women make of mindfulness during the postpartum period and the mechanisms through which it works. The subjective experience of mindfulness practice by mothers is not fully...
JURNAL PENELITIAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
February 7, 2017
Ega Asnatasia Maharani
21 citations
AbstrakGuru merupakan profesi yang rentan mengalami stres. Mindfulness sebagai salah satu strategi emotional coping merupakan alternatif intervensi yang dapat membantu guru mengatasi kondisi stres yang dialaminya. Pelatihan “Smiling Mind” (SM) yang digunakan sebagai intervensi stres ini menggunakan konsep Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction dan Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Melalui...