GAD, Metacognition, and Mindfulness: An Information Processing Analysis

By A. Wells. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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TEACHING MINDFULNESS TO CHILDREN (2008, background): “Wells (2002) argues that “mindfulness meditation does not contain information 95).”
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Preliminary Evaluation (2008, background): “Moreover, doubts have been raised as to whether brief programs like MBCT and MBSR have enough treatment elements to sufficiently alleviate processes maintaining GAD (Teasdale, Segal and Williams, 2003; Wells, 2002).”
Mindfulness : A proposed operational definition (2006, unknown): “2002; Wells, 1999; 2002 ), post-traumatic stress disorder (Wolfsdorf & Zlotnick, 2001),”
Fear and Avoidance of Internal Experiences in GAD: Preliminary Tests of a Conceptual Model (2005, background): “Others have placed central importance on addressing and modifying beliefs about worry (both positive and negative) in treating GAD (e.g., Wells, 2002).”
Mindfulness and De-Automatization (2013, background): “This component of sustained attention has been associated with positive mental health outcomes, including reduction in ruminative processes (Chambers, Lo, & Allen, 2008) and anxiety (Wells, 2002).”
Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research Evidence (2011, background): “Of relevance to stress management, emotional habits, such as being anxious before an exam, are also frequently supported and sustained by dysfunctional beliefs (Wells, 2002).”
Evolving Conceptions of Mindfulness in Clinical Settings (2009, result): “This is in contrast with the term metacognition as used by Wells (2002), which emphasizes knowl- edge about and control of the cognitions rather than their immediate recognition as events in the mind.”
Clinical handbook of mindfulness (2009, background): “This area of clinical investigation has recently been reviewed in special journal issues, professional handbooks, and practitioner’s treatment guides (for detailed reviews see Borkovec, 2002; Craske & Hazlett-Stevens, 2002; Eifert & Forsyth, 2005; Germer, 2005; Orsillo & Roemer, 2005; Roemer, Salter”
Mindfulness in Nature Enhances Connectedness and Mood (2019, unknown): “The benefits of practicing mindfulness appear to be derived from attention regulation and enhanced information processing, leading to more complex cognitions that allow for open-minded self-reflection (Bishop et al., 2004; Breslin, Zack, & McMain, 2002; Wells, 2002).”
The Impact of Intensive Mindfulness Training on Attentional Control, Cognitive Style, and Affect (2008, background): “Indeed, attentional deficit or dysfunction has been implicated in rumination (Treynor, Gonzales, & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2003), depression (Depue & Collins, 1999; Strauman, 2002), and anxiety (Wells, 2002).”
Letting Go: Mindfulness and Negative Automatic Thinking (2008, background): “Specifically, mindfulness practice may develop one’s ability to de-center one’s self from one’s mental processes, and the ability to be less attached to negative thoughts via an increased capacity to let go (e.g., Breslin et al., 2002; Craske & Hazlett-Stevens, 2002; Teasdale et al., 1995, 2002; Wel”
Operationalizing Mindfulness Without Unnecessary Attachments (2006, unknown): “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) takes much the same approach, using acceptance, cognitive defusion, and attention to present experience from the point of view of ‘‘self-as-context.’’ Wells (2002) attempts to use guided attention to see thoughts as thoughts ”
Emotional Schemas and Resistance to Change in Anxiety Disorders. (2007, background): “The use of mindfulness may engage a metacognitive mode of processing and increase flexibility in response to threat (Toneatto, 2002; Wells, 2002) that allows the patient to detach from the experience while observing it.”