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- Title
Mindfulness-based approaches: are they all the same?
- Authors
Chiesa, Alberto; Malinowski, Peter
- Abstract
Mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly employed as interventions for treating a variety of psychological, psychiatric and physical problems. Such approaches include ancient Buddhist mindfulness meditations such as Vipassana and Zen meditations, modern group-based standardized meditations, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and further psychological interventions, such as dialectical behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. We review commonalities and differences of these interventions regarding philosophical background, main techniques, aims, outcomes, neurobiology and psychological mechanisms. In sum, the currently applied mindfulness-based interventions show large differences in the way mindfulness is conceptualized and practiced. The decision to consider such practices as unitary or as distinct phenomena will probably influence the direction of future research. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 67:1-21, 2011.
- Subjects
MINDFULNESS-based cognitive therapy; THERAPEUTIC use of meditation; BUDDHIST meditations; STRESS management; BEHAVIOR therapy; NEUROBIOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2011, Vol 67, Issue 4, p404
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jclp.20776