This paper reports a qualitative, idiographic study employing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the experiences of therapists who have a mindfulness practice, looking at how this is brought into their individual therapeutic work. Findings focus on mindfulness, conceptualized as a way of being, which emerges as a central theme in all accounts. Three "way of being" related theme...

Mindfulness has the potential to affect new product evaluation since consumers with a higher propensity for mindfulness are more likely to notice and accept differences between existing and new products. This research references piecemeal/category-based processing theory to study the moderating effect of individual mindfulness on information processing in the presence of product category knowle...

Resilience, mindfulness, and academic self-efficacy are topics of interests to psychologists; however, little is known about the relationships among the three. The primary purpose of this research was to explore the role of mindfulness and academic self-efficacy in predicting resilience among university students. 141 participants (m = 39, f = 102) completed The Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, T...

Research suggests that mindfulness practices offer psychotherapists a way to positively affect aspects of therapy that account for successful treatment. This paper provides psychotherapists with a synthesis of the empirically supported advantages of mindfulness. Definitions of mindfulness and evidence-based interpersonal, affective, and intrapersonal benefits of mindfulness are presented. Resea...

BACKGROUND There is emerging evidence that mindfulness groups for people with distressing psychosis are safe and therapeutic. AIMS The present study aimed to investigate the feasibility of running and evaluating a mindfulness group on an inpatient ward for individuals with chronic and treatment resistant psychosis. METHOD Eight participants attended a 6-week mindfulness group on a specialis...

Purpose Preliminary evidence attests to the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions in reducing symptoms associated with a variety of medical and psychological conditions. However, there are discrepancies in how mindfulness has been operationalized, assessed, and practiced. Contemporary mindfulness assessments were developed by Western scientists and have questionable validity, particu...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the nomological network associations between collective mindfulness and big data analytics in fostering resilient humanitarian relief supply chains. Design/methodology/approach authors conceptualize a research model grounded literature test hypotheses using survey collected from informants at aid organizations Africa Europe. Findings findings d...

Mindfulness Interventions for Adolescents A recent study (Marks, Sobanski, & Hine, 2010) shows that dispositional mindfulness moderates psychological dysfunction in adolescence. The authors suggest that interventions to increase dispositional mindfulness in childhood may support the wellbeing of adolescents confronted by the inevitable stresses of growing up. This implies that teaching adolesce...

Conflicts of interest: No conflicts of interest exist with regard to the presented work What's already known about this topic? • Distraction reduces pain but pain catastrophizing interferes with this effect • Mindfulness-based interventions are beneficial for the treatment of chronic pain but it is unclear if mindfulness can be induced to deal with acute pain • Mindfulness is believed to counte...

To improve the effectiveness of teaching professionalism, the authors propose introducing mindfulness practice into the dental curriculum. The qualities cultivated through mindfulness meditation practice closely resemble the global attitudes of professionalism. Professionalism and mindfulness are broad overlapping constructs with a common prosocial aim: letting go of selfish, short-sighted rewa...