Mindfulness: What Is It? What Does It Matter?
Mindfulness and psychotherapy
Short Title:
Mindfulness
Format:
Book Chapter
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2004
Publisher:
Guilford Press
Place of Publication:
New York, NY, US
Pages:
3 - 27
Sources ID:
73106
Collection:
Bibliography for Terms
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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This chapter opens with a discussion of the relationship of mindfulness to suffering and offers definitions of mindfulness. Next, various applications of mindfulness in psychotherapeutic practice are highlighted. The author also discusses the possible emergence of a mindfulness-oriented model of psychotherapy and the worldview of mindfulness. The chapter closes with discussion of the question "Does mindfulness matter to therapists?". (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)