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- Spirituality and Psychiatry
- Spirituality and Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists: A Personal Reflection
- Chapter 1 Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry
- Chapter 2 Spiritual Assessment
- Chapter 3 Psychosis
- Chapter 4 Suicide
- Chapter 5 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Chapter 6 Psychotherapy
- Chapter 7 Intellectual Disability
- Chapter 8 Substance Misuse and Addiction
- Chapter 9 Common Mental Disorders
- Chapter 10 Forensic Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Meditation, Prayer and Healing
- Chapter 12 Religion and Spirituality in the DSM and ICD
- Chapter 13 Spiritual Care in the NHS
- Chapter 14 Spiritual and Religious Interventions
- Chapter 15 The Patient Perspective
- Chapter 16 Religion and Religious Experience
- Chapter 17 Pathological Spirituality
- Chapter 18 Ageing
- Glossary
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter 14.1 - Mindfulness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2022
- Spirituality and Psychiatry
- Spirituality and Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- The Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists: A Personal Reflection
- Chapter 1 Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry
- Chapter 2 Spiritual Assessment
- Chapter 3 Psychosis
- Chapter 4 Suicide
- Chapter 5 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Chapter 6 Psychotherapy
- Chapter 7 Intellectual Disability
- Chapter 8 Substance Misuse and Addiction
- Chapter 9 Common Mental Disorders
- Chapter 10 Forensic Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Meditation, Prayer and Healing
- Chapter 12 Religion and Spirituality in the DSM and ICD
- Chapter 13 Spiritual Care in the NHS
- Chapter 14 Spiritual and Religious Interventions
- Chapter 15 The Patient Perspective
- Chapter 16 Religion and Religious Experience
- Chapter 17 Pathological Spirituality
- Chapter 18 Ageing
- Glossary
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
Mindfulness as a therapeutic modality has its principal roots in Buddhism. First introduced by Jon Kabat-Zinn as a treatment for stress and chronic pain, mindfulness-based approaches have since been trialled in a wide range of mental health disorders. Mindfulness may help patients both by teaching them to bring greater awareness to aspects of their experience that they may have avoided, and by helping them to learn to find ways of being with difficult experience that can mitigate suffering. Reviews of studies suggest that mindfulness is most effective in depression and anxiety. As well as helping patients, mindfulness has been recommended to help health professionals to avoid burnout and promote well-being and empathy. Whether therapeutic mindfulness is religious, secular or spiritual has been debated. This ambiguity may allow patients to contextualise mindfulness practices according to their own worldviews.
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- Spirituality and Psychiatry , pp. 252 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022