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Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies

Shian-Ling Keng, +2 more
- 01 Aug 2011 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 6, pp 1041-1056
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It is concluded that mindfulness brings about various positive psychological effects, including increased subjective well-being, reduced psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity, and improved behavioral regulation.
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This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 2011-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1902 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy & Mindfulness-based stress reduction.

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A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self-compassion program.

TL;DR: The MSC program appears to be effective at enhancing self-compassion, mindfulness, and wellbeing.
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Exploring compassion: A meta-analysis of the association between self-compassion and psychopathology

TL;DR: A systematic search of the literature on compassion and mental health used meta-analysis to explore associations between self-compassion and psychopathology using random effects analyses of Fisher's Z correcting for attenuation arising from scale reliability and found a large effect size.
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Effectiveness of online mindfulness-based interventions in improving mental health: A review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

TL;DR: It is shown that online MBIs have potential to contribute to improving mental health outcomes, particularly stress, and that effect sizes for stress were significantly moderated by the number of intervention sessions.
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The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation: A Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the effects of mindfulness meditation on various psychological variables, for meditators in non-clinical settings, is presented, and the effect sizes differ widely across dependent variables, including attention, intelligence, self-attributed mindfulness, positive and negative emotions, emotion regulation, personality traits, selfconcept, selfrealization, stress and well-being.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for chronic pain: model, process, and progress.

TL;DR: The progress of CBT in the treatment of chronic pain and the challenges now faced by researchers and clinicians interested in meeting this need for development are reviewed and greater detail is focused on areas of development within CBT, namely acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness-based approaches, areas that may hold potential for future progress.
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Interpersonal outcome of cognitive behavioral treatment for chronically suicidal borderline patients

TL;DR: The results suggest that dialectical behavior therapy is a promising psychosocial intervention for improving interpersonal functioning among severely dysfunctional patients with borderline personality disorder.
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Well-being and affective style: neural substrates and biobehavioural correlates.

TL;DR: The central substrates and peripheral biological correlates of well-being are described and whether these patterns of central and peripheral biology can be modified by training and shifted toward a more salubrious direction is considered.
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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

TL;DR: The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) as mentioned in this paper is an interdisciplinary organization comprised of researchers, psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, social workers, nurses, and other mental health practitioners and students who adhere to, develop, evaluate and disseminate behavioral and cognitive approaches to the assessment and treatment of behavioral and mental health problems.
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Meditation and attention: A comparison of the effects of concentrative and mindfulness meditation on sustained attention

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of concentrative and mindfulness meditators on a test of sustained attention (Wilkins' counting test) was compared with controls, and long-term and short-term meditation was compared.
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