The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS): A process measure for evaluating mindfulness-based interventions

Mindfulness Interventions 1 RUNNING HEAD: MINDFULNESS INTERVENTIONS Mindfulness Interventions

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention and awareness on present moment experience, and there has been a surge in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of mindfulness interventions in recent years. This review takes stock of the growing mindfulness intervention RCT evidence to-date by reviewing and discussing: 1) mindfulness intervention effects on health, cognitive, affective, ...

Mindfulness: Method and Process

For a procedure to enter into the armamentarium of empirical clinical psychology, two things seem to be currently required: the technology has to be reasonably well defined, and it has to be shown to be useful when applied appropriately. These requirements are important, but ultimately they are not sufficient. There are times when technologies are so powerful that impact alone justifies their s...

Mindfulness and psychological process.

The author reviews the articles in the Special Section on Mindfulness, starting from the assumption that emotions evolved as signaling systems that need to be sensitive to environmental contingencies. Failure to switch off emotion is due to the activation of mental representations of present, past, and future that are created independently of external contingencies. Mindfulness training can be ...

Mindfulness based interventions for children

Kabat-Zinn et al introduced mindfulness, a concept and technique borrowed from Buddhist meditation practices, to the field of psychotherapy. It is defined as the " the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment to moment " (1). Unlike other forms of meditation that emphasize distancing oneself fro...

Mindfulness Process Questionnaire: Assessing the Process Rather Than the Outcome of Mindfulness