Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Approaches for First Responders: From Research to Clinical Practice

Clinical practice as natural laboratory for psychotherapy research: a guide to case-based time-series analysis.

Both researchers and practitioners need to know more about how laboratory treatment protocols translate to real-world practice settings and how clinical innovations can be systematically tested and communicated to a skeptical scientific community. The single-case time-series study is well suited to opening a productive discourse between practice and laboratory. The appeal of case-based time-ser...

PRACTICE REVIEW What Are the Benefits of Mindfulness? A Practice Review of Psychotherapy-Related Research

Research suggests that mindfulness practices offer psychotherapists a way to positively affect aspects of therapy that account for successful treatment. This paper provides psychotherapists with a synthesis of the empirically supported advantages of mindfulness. Definitions of mindfulness and evidence-based interpersonal, affective, and intrapersonal benefits of mindfulness are presented. Resea...

From Research to Clinical Practice

The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that in 2003, 211,300 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 39,800 women will die from the disease (Jemal et al., 2003). The mortality associated with breast cancer has decreased because of increased awareness of and participation in early detection methods. The three primary tools used for the early detection of breast cancer are breast self...

What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research.

Research suggests that mindfulness practices offer psychotherapists a way to positively affect aspects of therapy that account for successful treatment. This paper provides psychotherapists with a synthesis of the empirically supported advantages of mindfulness. Definitions of mindfulness and evidence-based interpersonal, affective, and intrapersonal benefits of mindfulness are presented. Resea...

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