NEW438H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bariatric Surgery, Anorexia Nervosa, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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Re: essay: review mindfulness interventions in area interested in or look at mindfulness intervention critique. Articles, summary, critiques, write out status of current literature. Exam: may ask about general area not asking about exact author"s theory. 1 review article and 3 empirical articles assigned for this week. Strength or weakness in studies with targeted population. Last good studies: segal (depression), sunquist (fibromyalgia) today: kristeller (eating disorders) Follow-ups are rarely done in the mindfulness field/ not long enough* Buddhism in articles is from theravada tradition (hinayana) inferior path: buddha died 4 centuries go by 18 sects, theravada emerged (around 0 bce) sri. Mindfulness-based eating awareness training (mb-eat) for binge eating: a randomized clinical trial. Control (waitlist), mb-eat, pecb = 3 treatment groups. Went out of the way to explain the study was unrelated to buddhism religion. Co-led by head professionals and students not trained in mbsr. Mindfulness = aware of cues: thoughts and mental experiences.
