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The art and science of mindfulness integrating mindfulness into psychology and the helping professions

"Our intention is to clearly define mindfulness and its role in psychotherapy and health care, exploring it as an empirically supported clinical intervention across a wide range of populations, a means of fostering self-care for helping professionals, and a catalyst for going beyond the professions focus on pathology to include positive growth and development. This volume is divided into three parts. Part I, "What is mindfulness? and how is it applicable to clinical work?" is composed of four chapters. Chapter 1 defines mindfulness, attempting to elucidate its multifaceted nature as both a meditation practice and a fundamental way of perceiving and being. Chapters 2 through 4 explore applications of mindfulness in psychotherapy from the perspective of the mindful therapist (chap. 2), mindfulness-informed therapy (chap. 3), and mindfulness-based therapy (chap. 4). Part II, "Does it help? And how does it help?" focuses on a summary of the research on mindfulness-based interventions for psychological (chap. 5) and medical (chap. 6) populations. This section also discusses potential mechanisms of action for the salutary and transformational effects of mindfulness (chap. 7). Part III, "Expanding the paradigm," offers new ways of envisioning health care and mental health, expanding the field to include the well-being of the clinician as an essential part of the system (chap. 8) as well as expanding our definitions of health and human potential (chap. 9). Finally, chapter 10 offers directions for future research and applications of mindfulness"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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