Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
November 2016
Chloe Randal, Sandra Bucci, Tirma Morera et al.
There are an increasing, but limited, number of studies investigating the benefits of mindfulness interventions for people experiencing psychosis. To our knowledge, changes following mindfulness for psychosis have not yet been explored from a personal construct perspective. This study had two main aims: (i) to explore changes in the way a person construes their self, others and their experience...
Iranian Red Crescent medical journal
November 2016
Shima Ebrahiminejad, Hamid Poursharifi, Abbas Bakhshiour Roodsari et al.
Social anxiety is one of the most common psychological disorders that exists among children and adolescents, and it has profound effects on their psychological states and academic achievements. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on diminishing social anxiety disorder symptoms and improving the self-esteem of female adolescents...
Occupational Medicine
November 1, 2016
D Żołnierczyk-Zreda, M Sanderson, S Bedyńska
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which was initially used in clinical settings, has also proved to be an effective tool for managing work-related stress in occupational groups inherently exposed to certain psychosocial risks. To examine the potential for work-related stress management using MBSR for middle-level managers who are considered to be particularly affected by the negative...
Pain
November 2016
Judith A Turner, Melissa L Anderson, Benjamin H Balderson et al.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is believed to improve chronic pain problems by decreasing patient catastrophizing and increasing patient self-efficacy for managing pain. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is believed to benefit patients with chronic pain by increasing mindfulness and pain acceptance. However, little is known about how these therapeutic mechanism variables relate to...
Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
November 2016
Marco Sperduti, Dominique Makowski, Pascale Piolino
Life expectancy is constantly increasing. However, a longer life not always corresponds to a healthier life. Indeed, even normal aging is associated with a decline in different cognitive functions. It has been proposed that a central mechanism that could contribute to this widespread cognitive decline is an ineffective inhibitory attentional control. Meditation, to the other hand, has been...
International urogynecology journal
November 2016
Gregory Kanter, Yuko M Komesu, Fares Qaedan et al.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a standardized meditation program that may be an effective therapy for interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), a condition exacerbated by stress. The aims of this study were to explore whether MBSR improved IC/BPS symptoms and the feasibility/acceptability of MSBR among women with IC/BPS. This randomized controlled trial included women...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
November 1, 2016
Michael S. King
Therapeutic Jurisprudence is a major force in the contemporary justice system, with its principles informing the practice of drug courts, family violence courts, mental health courts and other solution-focused courts and increasingly, mainstream judging. It values practices that support offenders’ internal mechanisms of change. The use of the self-development technique, Transcendental...
Consciousness and Cognition
November 1, 2016
Michael Dambrun
Drawing on the Self-centeredness/Selflessness Happiness Model (SSHM), we hypothesized that a reduction in the salience of perceived body boundaries would lead to increase optimal emotional experience. These constructs were assessed by means of self-report measures. Participants (n=53) were randomly assigned to either the selflessness (induced by a body scan meditation) condition or the control...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
November 1, 2016
David W. Orme-Johnson
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has proposed a fundamentally new theory of society, which posits a field of collective consciousness as the causal level of social organization underlying all patterns of relationships between and among individuals and social groups. The purpose of the present study was to use factor analysis to examine the inter-correlation patterns among the dependent variables used in...
BMJ Open
November 1, 2016
Julieta Galante, Géraldine Dufour, Alice Benton et al.
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INTRODUCTION: Levels of stress in UK university students are high, with an increase in the proportion of students seeking help in recent years. Academic pressure is reported as a major trigger. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce stress and is popular among students, but its effectiveness in this context needs to be ascertained. In this pragmatic randomised controlled trial, we...