Mindfulness and trauma: implications for treatment

Follette, Victoria M.; Palm, Kathleen M.; Pearson, Adria

doi:10.1007/s10942-006-0025-2

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“…Chopko & Schwartz, 2009; Follette, Palm, & Pearson, 2006; Thompson, Arnkoff, & Glass, 2011). A vast body of literature from interventions and associational studies has demonstrated the health benefits of mindfulness in both clinical and community samples (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004; Khusid & Vythilingam, 2016).…”

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Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Yuan

Liu

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Previous studies have shown that parental attachment is associated with low severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and low academic burnout in individuals who have experienced traumatic events. Objective: The present study investigated the ways in which parental attachment is related to PTSD symptoms and academic burnout in Chinese traumatized adolescents by considering the role of dispositional mindfulness. Method: A total of 443 Chinese adolescents who had experienced a severe tornado one year prior to this study completed measures of parental attachment, dispositional mindfulness, PTSD and academic burnout. Results: The results showed that our model fitted the data well [χ2/df = 2.968, CFI = 0.971, TLI = 0.955, RMSEA (90% CI) = 0.067 (0.052–0.082)] and revealed that dispositional mindfulness partially mediates the relationship between parental attachment, PTSD severity and academic burnout. Conclusions: The findings suggested that dispositional mindfulness and parental attachment may be two critical resources in dealing with traumatization and academic burnout.

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Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Yuan

Liu

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Being able to pay attention to novelty and to the context of a current situation (Langer et al 1978) or in a purposeful manner, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally (Kabat-Zinn et al 1985), is thought to help reduce Running head: SEXUAL ABUSE OR ASSAULT AND MINDFULNESS 6 psychopathology in general and post-traumatic symptoms, in particular (Banks et al 2015;Follette et al 2006). In this regard, mindfulness can also be conceptualized as at least partly countering experiential avoidance (Thompson and Waltz 2010).…”

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Mindfulness as Mediator and Moderator of Post-traumatic Symptomatology in Adolescence Following Childhood Sexual Abuse or Assault

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Acknowledgements: The first three authors are members of the "Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles" (CRIPCAS) and the "Équipe violence sexuelle et santé" (ÉVISSA), both research groups on sexual abuse. This research was supported by a grant from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. We thank school directors, teachers and students for their generous collaboration in this project, as well as research assistants, in particular Erika Bacon, Results reveal that mindfulness acted as a mediator of post-traumatic symptoms, as CSA was associated with lower levels of mindfulness, which in turn were associated with more post-traumatic symptoms. On the other hand, mindfulness only acted as a moderator of CSA for anger and anxiety, but not in the expected direction. Further investigation is needed to shed light on the moderator role of mindfulness in sexually abused youth.Running head: SEXUAL ABUSE OR ASSAULT AND MINDFULNESS 3

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“…There is also some empirical support for interventions that incorporate mindfulness into treatment for trauma and PTSD (Follette, Palm, and Pearson 2006;Follette and Vijay 2009;Lee, Zaharlick, and Akers 2009;Walser and Westrup 2007). When specifically targeting dissociation, trauma experts reported using mindfulness as a top complement to their firstline interventions; top first-line interventions for dissociation were education about trauma and emotion regulation interventions (Cloitre et al 2011).…”

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Staying Present: Incorporating Mindfulness into Therapy for Dissociation

Zerubavel

Messman-Moore

2013

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Dissociation involves retreating from the experience of the present moment through various processes, while mindfulness cultivates the ability to stay in the present moment. We argue that mindfulness is thus uniquely well suited for treatment of dissociation. This paper delineates the theoretical relationship between mindfulness and dissociation, discussing how incorporating mindfulness into psychotherapy can improve outcomes for dissociative clients. Mindfulness can provide clients with specific techniques for enhancing prediction of and control over dissociation through building awareness of dissociative processes and offering a tool for staying in the present moment. Mindfulness reduces reliance on avoidance, which in turn diminishes the need for dissociation. In addition, taking the position of the observer, which is a key feature of mindfulness, is itself a capability associated with dissociation. We discuss the application of mindfulness to three types of dissociative processes: detachment (e.g., depersonalization, derealization), absorption (e.g., daydreaming, "blanking out"), and compartmentalization (e.g., amnesia, conversion symptoms). Three mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of integrating mindfulness into treatment of dissociation are proposed: (1) the techniques of mindfulness (e.g., observing, staying present), (2) the metacognitions of mindfulness (e.g., acceptance, nonjudgment), and (3) the emergent processes of mindfulness (e.g., reperceiving, dialectical thinking). Challenges to implementation of mindfulness with dissociative clients are also explored. Information and recommendations are provided to guide applications to intervention.

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Mindfulness and trauma: implications for treatment

Cited by 205 publications

References 28 publications

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Mindfulness as Mediator and Moderator of Post-traumatic Symptomatology in Adolescence Following Childhood Sexual Abuse or Assault

Staying Present: Incorporating Mindfulness into Therapy for Dissociation

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