PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Document Summary
Buddhist spiritual practices: mindfulness has been adopted by psychology as an approach for increasing awareness and responding skillfully to mental processes that contribute to emotional distress and maladaptive behavior, mindfulness based stress reduction (mbsr), manualized treatment program originally developed for the management of chronic pain, now used widely to reduce psychological morbidity associated with chronic illnesses and to treat emotional and behavioral disorders, recent controlled trials show impressive reductions in psychological morbidity associated with medical illness and the mitigation of stress and enhanced emotional well being in nonclinical samples, recent innovations in psychological treatment also use mindfulness approaches, involve training in meditation to cultivate the capacity to evoke and apply mindfulness to enhance emotional well being and mental health, mindfulness approaches: form of mental training to reduce cognitive vulnerability to reactive modes of mind that might otherwise heighten stress and emotional distress or that may otherwise perpetuate psychopathology.
