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The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction
Consistent with its growing popularity amongst the general public and medical community, throughout recent decades there have been increasing attempts to understand the mechanisms that underlie therapeutic improvement in individuals receiving mindfulness training. The current paper draws upon findin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27688740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-016-9653-7 |
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description | Consistent with its growing popularity amongst the general public and medical community, throughout recent decades there have been increasing attempts to understand the mechanisms that underlie therapeutic improvement in individuals receiving mindfulness training. The current paper draws upon findings from various remits of scientific enquiry and summarises key evidence-based mechanisms of mindfulness that have been proposed in the academic literature to date. Empirical findings indicate that mindfulness targets biological, psychological, social, and spiritual psychopathology determinants. Furthermore, the mechanistic pathways exploited by mindfulness are likely to vary according to factors such as (i) the type of mindfulness-based intervention that is administered (e.g., first- or second-generation mindfulness-based interventions), (ii) the specific clinical disorder that is being targeted, (iii) the educational, social, and spiritual history of the participant, and (iv) the extent to which the mindfulness instructor truly embodies the principles of mindful living. It is hoped that the mechanisms of mindfulness discussed in this paper will contribute to the formulation of a more complete picture that can be tested and expanded upon during future scientific enquiry. |
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spelling | pubmed-50237502016-09-27 The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction Shonin, Edo Van Gordon, William Int J Ment Health Addict Article Consistent with its growing popularity amongst the general public and medical community, throughout recent decades there have been increasing attempts to understand the mechanisms that underlie therapeutic improvement in individuals receiving mindfulness training. The current paper draws upon findings from various remits of scientific enquiry and summarises key evidence-based mechanisms of mindfulness that have been proposed in the academic literature to date. Empirical findings indicate that mindfulness targets biological, psychological, social, and spiritual psychopathology determinants. Furthermore, the mechanistic pathways exploited by mindfulness are likely to vary according to factors such as (i) the type of mindfulness-based intervention that is administered (e.g., first- or second-generation mindfulness-based interventions), (ii) the specific clinical disorder that is being targeted, (iii) the educational, social, and spiritual history of the participant, and (iv) the extent to which the mindfulness instructor truly embodies the principles of mindful living. It is hoped that the mechanisms of mindfulness discussed in this paper will contribute to the formulation of a more complete picture that can be tested and expanded upon during future scientific enquiry. Springer US 2016-05-13 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5023750/ /pubmed/27688740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-016-9653-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Shonin, Edo Van Gordon, William The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title | The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title_full | The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title_fullStr | The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title_full_unstemmed | The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title_short | The Mechanisms of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Addiction |
title_sort | mechanisms of mindfulness in the treatment of mental illness and addiction |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27688740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-016-9653-7 |
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