Michael, You can find more detail on Mindfulness and its use in CBT/psychotherapy and medical treatment for some conditions. It is often referred to as "MBSR" -- short for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programs. There is a book called, "The Mindful Way Through Depression" that combines mindfulness based meta-awareness strategies with CBT for depression, and I frequently use it in therapy with students; I have also used it as the text for a noncredit class in "emotion management skills" that I offer each semester for our students at Colgate.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, et al. have been using it in treatment of medical conditions including chronic pain and psoriasis, for instance, and have been researching the unique contribution to treatment effect that it seems to provide in these as well as other cases. They are starting to study the neurobiology of these processes of meta-awareness -- or at least what shows up on an MRI when one participates in consistent training versus when a person is exposed to more traditional stress-reduction methods. Shelly Shelly Lear, PsyD Assoc Director Colgate University Counseling & Psychological Services Michael Britt wrote: > Well, it sounds like there's more to it than what I was originally > thinking. Very interesting. I didn't know about the connection > between mindfulness and CBT. I'm more inclined to look into it now. > Thanks everyone for your input. > > Michael > > Michael Britt > www.thepsychfiles.com > > > > > > > On Jun 24, 2009, at 4:26 PM, David T Wasieleski wrote: > > >> One of the reasons the concept is taking off in Western CBT approaches >> is that it was used by Marsha Linehan in her approach with Borderline >> Personality Disorder patients called Dialectical Behavior Therapy. DBT >> is based on a series of dialectics, or seeming contradictions, the >> primary one being emphasis on both acceptance and need for change. The >> approach also involves skills training to enable patients to better >> manage stressful events and their own difficulties with emotional >> dysregulation. Mindfulness, being in the moment rather than projecting >> ahead to look at anxiety-provoking implications, is one of the major >> skills taught in DBT. >> My clinical 2 cents. >> David W. >> >> >> Michael Smith wrote: >> >> >> >>> I would disagree that mindfulness is a meditation technique. >>> Rather, my >>> understanding of it is that it is a state of mind required of and >>> >> acquired >> >>> through 'standard' zen or more traditional branches of Buddhist >>> >> meditation. >> >>> It could be described as a kind of meta-awareness of where one's >>> concentration is focused and is a necessary step toward and condition >>> >> of the >> >>> enlightenment experience. >>> >>> --Mike >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Paul Okami >>> >> <kozure.ok...@verizon.net>wrote: >> >>>> Mindfulness is not "new agey" although some people who are promoting >>>> >> it for >> >>>> one reason or another (often financial in nature) may be. >>>> >>>> Mindfulness is a meditation technique first described by the Buddha >>>> >> (Gotama >> >>>> Siddhartha) in a Pali sutta highly likely to be an accurate record >>>> of >>>> >> his >> >>>> actual teaching (see scholarship on Indian Buddhism). Although the >>>> >> original >> >>>> teaching included the component of "insight" (seeing the world as it >>>> actually is), modern Western mindfulness meditation techniques >>>> >> generally >> >>>> focus on a more basic component of Buddhist meditation that fosters >>>> >> relaxed >> >>>> attention to the moment and reduces judgmntalism. The same sort of >>>> >> clinical >> >>>> trials which test psychotherapy techniques have been applied to >>>> Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (MBCBT) with good >>>> >> results--if >> >>>> you believe those sorts of studies. >>>> >>>> Paul Okami >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> *From:* Michael Britt <michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com> >>>> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences >>>> >> (TIPS)<tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> >> >>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:56 PM >>>> *Subject:* [tips] Mindfulness - anything to it? >>>> >>>> >>>> As it turns out, I don't live very far from a well-known, new-agey >>>> >> place >> >>>> called The Omega Institute. I've thought about interviewing some of >>>> >> the >> >>>> speakers who come there, but the kinds of workshops they have are >>>> >> often "out >> >>>> in left field" (you know, energy medicine type of thing) so I >>>> haven't. >>>> >> I'm >> >>>> just curious about this mindfulness thing that seems to be getting >>>> >> popular. >> >>>> Has anyone heard about it? I hadn't heard that it was "being >>>> >> introduced >> >>>> into school curriculums" as they say. Here is the description from >>>> >> Omega: >> >>>> ---------- >>>> >>>> >> Mindfulness<http://links.mkt1808.com/ctt?kn=13&m=33461185&r=Mjc2NjA3NTA0 >> NQS2&b=0&j=NTIwMzYxNTAS1&mt=1&rt=0>, >> >>>> a meditative technique that fosters inner calm and a sense of >>>> >> well-being, is >> >>>> being introduced into school curriculums by an innovative group of >>>> >> leaders >> >>>> in mindfulness practice and education. The results are promising for >>>> >> both >> >>>> the children and those who work with them. >>>> >>>> During this weekend mindfulness >>>> >> retreat<http://links.mkt1808.com/ctt?kn=44&m=33461185&r=Mjc2NjA3NTA0NQS2 >> &b=0&j=NTIwMzYxNTAS1&mt=1&rt=0>—for >> >>>> teachers, administrators, child care providers, family therapists, >>>> and >>>> parents—you will experience relief from stress and find emotional >>>> >> balance >> >>>> for yourself while learning practical ways to teach children >>>> >> mindfulness >> >>>> techniques that can help them manage the challenges of growing up. >>>> >>>> ------- >>>> >>>> Thoughts on this? >>>> >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> >>>> Michael Britt >>>> mich...@thepsychfiles.com >>>> www.thepsychfiles.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> To make changes to your subscription contact: >>>> >>>> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> To make changes to your subscription contact: >>>> >>>> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> --- >>> To make changes to your subscription contact: >>> >>> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >>> >> --------------------------------------- >> David T. Wasieleski, Ph.D. >> Professor >> Department of Psychology and Counseling >> Valdosta State University >> Valdosta, GA 31698 >> 229-333-5620 >> http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dtwasieleski >> >> --- >> To make changes to your subscription contact: >> >> Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) >> > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
