Groves, P;
(2016)
Mindfulness in psychiatry - Where are we now?
BJPsych Bulletin
, 40
(6)
pp. 289-292.
10.1192/pb.bp.115.052993.
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Abstract
Mindfulness is an increasingly popular therapeutic approach. Mindfulness-based interventions have been tried out in a wide range of mental disorders, with the strongest evidence for use in depression and anxiety. Mindfulness operates by changing the person's relationship with unhelpful thoughts and emotions. The need for home practice is both a strength and a weakness. Some find home practice too demanding and a barrier to effective utilisation of mindfulness. Others discover a set of practical tools that, once learnt, can be applied to ongoing life difficulties; in this way mindfulness may have a place in promoting recovery beyond the acute treatment of a disorder. Additionally, mindfulness may be beneficial for clinicians to promote well-being and enhance the therapeutic relationship.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mindfulness in psychiatry - Where are we now? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1192/pb.bp.115.052993 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052993 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 2016 The Author. This is an openaccess article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10025883 |
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