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Mindfulness Practice, Rumination and Clinical Outcome in Mindfulness-Based Treatment
- Source :
- Cognitive Therapy and Research. 38:1-9
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are particularly effective treatment approaches in terms of alleviating depressive symptoms and preventing relapse once remission has been achieved. Although engaging in mindfulness practice is an essential element of both treatments; it is unclear whether informal or formal practices differentially impact on symptom alleviation. The current study utilizes a correlational design to examine data provided by thirty-two previously depressed, remitted outpatients who received either MBCT or MBSR treatment. Outpatients in the MBCT group received treatment as part of a previously published randomized efficacy trial (Segal et al. in Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1256–1264, 2010), while those in the MBSR group received treatment as part of a separate, unpublished randomized clinical trial. Throughout treatment, clients reported on their use of formal and informal mindfulness practices. Results indicate that engaging in formal (but not informal) mindfulness practice was associated with decreased rumination, which was associated with symptom alleviation.
- Subjects :
- Stress reduction
Stress management
Mindfulness
Psychotherapist
medicine.medical_treatment
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
law.invention
Clinical Psychology
Randomized controlled trial
law
Rumination
Cognitive therapy
medicine
Effective treatment
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732819 and 01475916
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cognitive Therapy and Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........27926eccfb3fd36274de1248168b5a68