MINDFULNESS MEDITATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Abstract

In modern clinical psychology, the practice of mindfulness is gradually being introduced. In the sense of psychotherapy and stress management, mindfulness meditation is emerging as a systemic therapeutic technique, based on Buddhist theory and subsequently incorporated into Western health care. As originally conceived and developed by Kabat-Zinn and colleagues, this article discusses stress-reduction applications of mindfulness meditation primarily in medical environments.  The process factors associated with the time-limited, group-based format preferred by this model are identified and the results of early and more recent outcome studies are presented in tabular form.