Adele M. Hayes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a brief self-report measure of mindfulness with items that cover the breadth of the construct and that are written in everyday language, which demonstrated acceptable internal consistency and evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with concurrent measures of mindfulness, distress, well-being, emotion-regulation, and problem-solving approaches in three samples of university students.

TL;DR: Cognitive therapy therapists sometimes increased their adherence to cognitive rationales and techniques to correct problems in the therapeutic alliance, however, such increased focus seems to worsen alliance strains, thereby interfering with therapeutic change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe measurement development work from their research group that provides initial support for the proposed consensus definition and that examines mindfulness in relation to emotion regulation variables, and they extend the discussion by describing how mindfulness can enhance the stabilizing and destabilizing aspects of therapeutic change.

TL;DR: An alternative method for testing multifaceted constructs, which combines the advantages but avoid the drawbacks of the 2 existing methods and can lead to greater conceptual clarity is recommended.

TL;DR: Recent applications of nonlinear and discontinuous change ideas and methods to the study of change in psychotherapy are described to encourage their use to complement more traditional clinical trial designs.