Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings

By J. Carmody. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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The Assessment of Mindfulness with Self-Report Measures: Existing Scales and Open Issues (2013, background): “The issue of the coverage of the aspects of mindfulness is related to the comprehensiveness or, conversely, the parsimony (Carmody 2009) of assessments.”
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness (2012, methodology): “Although there is clearly benefit in using these self-report methods, the aforementioned critical issues should prevent clinical research from confirming the efficacy of traditional systems based on these self-report measures and provide caution in making claims about potential mechanisms (Carmody, ”
Mechanisms of Mindfulness: A Buddhist Psychological Model (2011, methodology): “Definitions of metacognitive awareness that include “decentering” (as defined by Fresco et al. 2007) would also map onto the acceptance component of the BPM.”
The effects of mindfulness-based treatments for aggression: A critical review (2013, background): “Researchers have increasingly recognized that concrete and consistent definitions are essential to advancing our understanding of how mindfulness works and what its role is in therapeutic interventions (Carmody, 2009; Davidson, 2010).”
What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. (2011, background): “It has been recently proposed that therapists who introduce mindfulness interventions with clients may find it helpful to explain mindfulness in terms of attention, avoiding jargon that may have unintended negative effects on clients (Carmody, 2009).”
Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Emotion Regulation in Social Anxiety Disorder (2010, methodology): “At this stage in the field’s development, we believe it is useful to apply Western psychological models of cognitive–affective processes to the study of mindfulness in order to clarify how mindfulness training works (Carmody, 2009).”
Intrapsychic Correlates of Professional Quality of Life: Mindfulness, Empathy, and Emotional Separation (2010, background): “…is happening in the moment without creating elaborate mental stories about the experience and without reacting to negative thoughts or affective states; instead, the experience is accepted without judgment or avoidance (Baer, Smith, Hopkins et al., 2006; Carmody, 2009; Dimidjian & Linehan, 2003).”
Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density (2010, background): “Literature on the mechanisms of mindfulness proposes that the positive benefits of the practice might be mediated by a perceptual shift that modulates the internal representation of the self (Shapiro et al., 2006; Carmody, 2009) and it is possible that structural changes in the brain network involve”
Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies (2011, background): “…mindfulness to be a one-dimensional construct referring specifically to paying attention to the present-moment experience (e.g., Brown & Ryan, 2003; Carmody, 2009), others argue that qualities such as curiosity, acceptance, and compassion are inherent tomindfulness (Baer & Sauer, 2009; Feldman et…”
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011, unknown): “Several of these accounts expound on the central role of attention in meditation practice (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Carmody, 2009; Lutz, Slagter, Dunne, & Davidson, 2008).”
Mindfulness-based interventions in schools—a systematic review and meta-analysis (2014, methodology): “…of mistakes in attentional and other tasks (Smallwood et al., 2011), it seems natural that reducing mind-wandering and improving attentional capacities could be beneficial in many respects, and might be one of the generic mechanisms through which mindfulness-based approaches work (Carmody, 2009).”
Mindfulness training and the cultivation of secure, satisfying couple relationships. (2013, unknown): “Mindfulness involves a state of mind that is purposeful, nonreactive, nonjudgmental, and attuned to the present moment (Baer, 2003; Bishop et al., 2004; Carmody, 2009; Kabat-Zinn, 1990).”