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Mindfulness‐based approaches: are they all the same?
Author(s) -
Chiesa Alberto,
Malinowski Peter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20776
Subject(s) - mindfulness , psychological intervention , psychotherapist , psychology , meditation , acceptance and commitment therapy , dialectical behavior therapy , intervention (counseling) , stress reduction , clinical psychology , cognitive therapy , buddhism , cognition , psychiatry , philosophy , theology , borderline personality disorder
Mindfulness‐based approaches are increasingly employed as interventions for treating a variety of psychological, psychiatric and physical problems. Such approaches include ancient Buddhist mindfulness meditations such as Vipassana and Zen meditations, modern group‐based standardized meditations, such as mindfulness‐based stress reduction and mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, and further psychological interventions, such as dialectical behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. We review commonalities and differences of these interventions regarding philosophical background, main techniques, aims, outcomes, neurobiology and psychological mechanisms. In sum, the currently applied mindfulness‐based interventions show large differences in the way mindfulness is conceptualized and practiced. The decision to consider such practices as unitary or as distinct phenomena will probably influence the direction of future research. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 67:1‐21, 2011.