Mindfulness: What Is It? What Does It Matter?

By C. Germer. 2005

320 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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1. S. Shapiro
2. K. Neff
3. Kirk Warren Brown
4. Ruth A. Baer
5. C. Germer
6. M. Lau
7. J. Hayes
8. Brian L. Thompson

Citations in the corpus

• Incremental Validity of Components of Mindfulness in the Prediction of Satisfaction with Life and Depression (2010, background): “In recent years Western psychology has developed a burgeoning interest in mindfulness, where it has been operationalized as a focus of one’s attention in a nonjudgmental or accepting way on the experience occurring in the present moment (Kabat-Zinn 1994) and as an awareness of present experience wit”
• Mindfulness as a moderator of neuroticism–outcome relations: A self-regulation perspective (2009, background): “Whether the latter pre-reflexive processes can be adequately captured by self-report scales is an issue of continued controversy to the mindfulness literature (Bishop et al., 2004; Germer, 2005).”
• Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review. (2009, background): “Germer (2005) concisely defines this as “(1) awareness, (2) of present experience, (3) with acceptance” (p. 7).”
• The Toronto Mindfulness Scale: development and validation. (2006, methodology): “This mental training is achieved through becoming skillful in the practice of mindfulness meditation (e.g., Germer, 2005; Kabat-Zinn, 1990, 1994, 1998; Segal et al., 2002; Shapiro & Swartz, 1999, 2000).”
• Self-compassion in clinical practice. (2013, background): “Mindfulness may be defined as “awareness, of present experience, with acceptance” (Germer, 2005).”
• Mind The Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation (2017, unknown): “…are contraindications to participation in an MBI that is not specifically tailored to one of these conditions (Didonna & Gonzalez, 2009; Dobkin et al., 2011; Germer, 2005; Kuijpers, van der Heijden, Tuinier, & Verhoeven, 2007; Lustyk et al., 2009; Manocha, 2000; Walsh & Roche, 1979; Yorston, 2001).”
• Reconciling and Thematizing Definitions of Mindfulness: The Big Five of Mindfulness (2016, background): “Germer (2005) connects the external to present experience whereas Schmidt (2011) refers more broadly to experience in general.”
• MINDFULNESS AT WORK (2011, background): “Clinical psychologists have found mindfulness practices to benefit both clinical populations and therapists; practices such as meditation may lead therapists to feel more empathy toward patients (Delmonte, 1990) and ‘‘enjoy their work more fully’’ (Germer, 2005, p. 11).”
• Relational Aspects of Mindfulness: Implications for the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy (2010, background): “Awareness means the ability to observe, to track thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they are happening in the present, noticing the body and mind, and contacting one’s actual felt experience without holding on or pushing away (Germer 2005; Kabat-Zinn 1994).”
• Effectiveness of Mindfulness Interventions for Mental Health in Schools: a Comprehensive Meta-analysis (2017, background): “, mindfulness meditation), and (3) a psychological state (e.g., being mindful; Germer 2005).”
• Everyday mindfulness and mindfulness meditation: Overlapping constructs or not? (2007, background): “The term mindfulness meditation is often used to describe the Buddhist practice of vipassana (Pali) or vipashyana (Sanskrit), which is often translated as “insight” (Germer, 2005). However, these pairings are not entirely agreed upon, even among Buddhists. Tibetan teachers Trungpa (1995) and Tsoknyi”
• Perceptions of the Long-Term Influence of Mindfulness Training on Counselors and Psychotherapists (2011, unknown): “In summary, our findings support Germer’s (2005) suggestion that there are three ways to integrate mindfulness into therapy:”
• What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. (2011, background): “…and Western psychology to psychotherapy (e.g., Epstein, 2007, 1995), there is a lack of literature on what it looks like in session when a therapist employs Buddhist-oriented approaches (i.e., mindfulness-informed psychotherapy as termed by Germer, 2005) to specific clinical issues and diagnoses.”