Mindfulness Therapy Annotated Bibliography

Depression is a condition of low disposition and aversion to action that can influence someone 's contemplations, conduct, emotions and sense of well-being (Salmans, Sandra, 1997). People with depression can feel very sad, restless, sad, defenseless, useless, guilty. They might lose enthusiasm for activities that were once pleasurable, experience problems with the way they eat, for example they may experience overeating or decreased appetite. People with depressed mood may also have issues with their concentration, they may face problem on recalling details or deciding about something, and might think about, endeavor or commit suicide (Schmidt, Peter, (2005). There are many different reasons why someone may suffer from depression. Some life

Articles and researches showed that anxiety disorders are one of the most common mental illness disorders in children and adolescents, but they often go untreated and undetected. Identification and effective intervention of childhood anxiety disorders can decrease the negative effect of these disorders on academic achievements and social relation and functioning in youth and their persistence into adulthood (Connolly & Nanayakkara, 2009).

There is visual significance to the intervention. During the baseline period of the project the data trends to be stable and flat for the most part, yet increased towards the end of the week. The intervention period started on day eight and showed a decline in the target behavior, with the exception of an increase on the final day, day fourteen. I anticipated the increase, since this was the day before my flight back home from Florida and I was worried about making everything fit into my suitcase without it being over the weight limit because I was coming back with more items than I originally went down with. According to the data, the intervention phase was successful because my target was reduced to feeling stressed less than three times a day. The baseline mean of frequency of

Mindfulness meditation has been described ‘as the awareness that comes from paying attention to the present moment experience in a purposeful and non-judgmental manner’ (Bishop et al., 2004 cited in Brown, Bravo, Roos, & Pearson, 2014 p. 1020). Pearson, Brown, Bravo and Witkiewitz (2015) suggest there are five important features of mindfulness when practising such as focussing one’s attention to the present and avoiding distractions, non-judgmentally experiencing thoughts, non-reactivity to thoughts, labelling experiences and simply observing thoughts/feelings. Integrated with the literature, this portfolio will contain description of my experience with mindfulness meditation technique resulted from guided exercises from Rob Nairn’s book ‘Diamond

Mental illness is a leading cause of disability in Canada (Center for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH, 2014). With one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health condition, there is an increasing need for early detection, intervention and prevention of relapse of these illnesses (Kozy & Varcarolis, 2014). The use of various therapies is therefore imperative in enhancing patient outcomes.

Due to current modern lifestyle which evolved around stressful events, it cannot be denied that people nowadays are more venerable to health diseases or illnesses. These illnesses include physical illness such as cardiovascular disease as well as those of mental illness such as depression. Many health care professionals such as doctors and psychologists have been going all out to help those who are in need. However, different techniques are required to help people physically and mentally. In this essay, we will focus on the psychotherapeutic approach such as cognitive-behavioural therapy used by psychologists to help the society deal with problems such as anxiety disorders.

Practicing mindfulness has been an important part of my life since I have decided to become a Buddhist. I often heard that mindfulness or meditation although is taught in other cultures, only a portion of mindfulness was emphasized in the practice of mindfulness. One of the reasons I aim to complete this course is to learn about the vocabulary used when teaching mindfulness. I was thrilled by the detailed concepts and the choice of words used to describe mindfulness. In particular, I was amazed by the introduction of mental factors, Four Noble Truths, and the Noble Eightfold path in the concept of mindfulness. It makes me feel like going home. I am working to incorporate what I am going to learn from the classes to reach out for those in need.

Another Patient that I would like to talk about would be Julia. Julia she is the main character in when I woke up tuesday morning it was friday because stout talks more about her then the another character in this entire story and the reason behind is , Julia is a woman who is incapable of remembering anything about her childhood and the reason behind is Certain traumatic events caused her to simply skip over and not remember some of the most important years of her life . In this situation I think Julia should follow Mindful meditation tips as thurman and Mehmet describes because Mindful mediation focuses on the present moment.This present-moment focus, experts believe, improves well-being by allowing individuals to become aware of their sensations, emotions, and thoughts that arise in the mind without judgement or reactivity. This form of meditation is used not only in meditation sessions, but also in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for those suffering from recurrent depression.When we read Julia’s section in stout story we saw that she was suffering from some depression in her

We cannot push the client too hard to change his or her behavior, it may risk conveying that as therapist we do not understand their experience and they can drop out (Bliss & McCardle, 2014). One very important aspect of DBT is that it allows us to see the clients view and understand their difficulties. Through DBT mindfulness skills are explored in a skills group and reinforce these skills in individual therapy sessions in order to help the client accept negative or painful emotions, rather than to avoid them ((Bliss & McCardle, 2014). Joe’s experiences throughout life have never been faced the way it should be. Instead he would seek drugs and alcohol to cope with the pain he was undergoing. Through DBT he will acquire the skills necessary to cope with the wounds from the past and those to come. That will be aquired as the therapist employs traditional cognitive-behavioral strategies, including exposure, problem solving, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral skills training (Bliss & McCardle, 2014). This is very important when working with clients with BPD especially when they become easily irritable with situations that they can’t

The clients met the DSM-IV criteria for Major depressive disorder if they displayed either tenacious depressed mood or experienced a loss of interest or pleasure in addition to the subsequent symptoms: change in appetite, feeling worthless or excessive guilt, fatigue or loss of energy, impaired cognition or concentration, psychomotor retardation or agitation, recurrent thoughts of death, sleep disturbance, weight loss or change in appetite. The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD 23) consists of 17-item clinical rating scale which was utilized to assess suitability interrater reliability; two clinicians independently randomly selected 10 interviews. The intra-class connection for the two raters was 0.96. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI 25) is a 21-item self-report questionnaire including symptoms and attitudes which related to depression. The items were added and summed in an overall score. The higher numbers proved a much greater depression with the range being in 0 to

Mindfulness –based cognitive therapy was introduced in 1995 to assess the problems of recurrent depression. It is based on the notion that meditation helps effectively and regulates attention to effectively manage and treat a range of psychological problems, including emotional response to stress, anxiety and depression. Several studies demonstrate that mindfulness approaches can effectively reduce negative emotional reaction from psychiatric difficulties and exposure to stress among children, adolescents, and their parents. Mindfulness – based approaches, including mindfulness – based cognitive therapy, is being increasingly supported by empirical studies to optimize the effective treatment of youth with a range of challenging

A book has the power to change your life if you read it from your heart at a right moment, and at the right time.

Morita therapy was founded by late Dr. Shoma Morita (1874-1938) M.D. in the 1910’s. Dr Shoma Morita was also a psychiatrist, researcher, founding professor of the Department of Psychiatry at Jikei University School of Medicine, in Tokyo, Japan. Morita therapy is a Japanese therapy used for treating various anxiety-related issues. (Suzuki & Suzuki, 1977) It is a form of psychotherapy has been proven very effective in treating Social Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive disorders, Chronic Depression, and Panic Disorder. Morita Therapy is also good for Somatoform Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Morita Therapy was influenced by the psychological principles of Zen Buddhism. (Morita School, 1978) Originally, Morita Therapy was first

Effectiveness is defined as the degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved; the ability to be successful and produce the intended results (Cambridge). Effectiveness is determined without reference to costs and means "doing the right thing" while efficiency means "doing the thing right". Various meta-analysis established the effectiveness of CBT in depression (Hans and Hiller, 2013); Social Anxiety Disorders, General Anxiety Disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Panic Disorder (Stewart and Chambless, 2009); Specific phobia (Wolitzky-Taylor, Horowitz, Powers, and Telch, 2008) in clinical settings. Findings from a meta analysis (Ebert, Carlotta Zarski, Christensen, Stikkelbroek et al, 2015)

The mindfulness approach to wellness has a vast application within the world of therapy. Its universal application allows for its benefits of calmness and understanding to arise in a diverse range of clients. The mind and body are strongly connected, and therapists who take a mindfulness approach encourage their clients to strengthen this connection. By knowing the brain health of a client, a therapist can utilize the mind body connection in virtually all forms of therapy to help the client address stress and come to terms with their feelings and emotions.