Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · 2004 · 701 citations · 43 references
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The issue proposes an operational definition of mindfulness from a recent consensus panel, and the authors describe measurement development work that supports this definition and examines its relation to emotion regulation variables. The authors present a solid empirical framework and research agenda for developing mindfulness measures, describe measurement development that supports the consensus definition and its link to emotion regulation, and illustrate how mindfulness can modulate stabilizing and destabilizing aspects of therapeutic change in a depression treatment program. The study demonstrates that mindfulness can enhance both stabilizing and destabilizing aspects of therapeutic change, as illustrated in a depression treatment program. Bishop et al.
Bishop et al. (this issue) propose an operational definition of mindfulness developed by a recent consensus panel. The group provides a solid empirical framework from which to develop measures of mindfulness, and they propose an exciting research agenda. We describe measurement development work from our research group that provides initial support for the proposed consensus definition and that examines mindfulness in relation to emotion regulation variables. We extend the discussion by describing how mindfulness can enhance the stabilizing and destabilizing aspects of therapeutic change, and we illustrate this in the context of our treatment program for depression.
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Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition.
Scott R. Bishop, Mark A. Lau, Shauna L. Shapiro et al. · Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · 2004 · 6.1K citations