Mindfulness-based interventions and their effects on emotional clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cooper, David; Yap, Keong; Batalha, Luisa

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.018

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“…Others have commented on how the tone and content of discussions they have within Parliament have shifted to 'include more of themselves'. This increased familiarity with inner experience [ 3 ] in the act of political discourse represents a significant, if not profound shift towards less tangible insights into the human condition, that may offer a key to some of society's most pressing problems.…”

Section: Tracey Crouch Mp Parliamentary Under Secretary Of State Formentioning

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Mindfulness in politics and public policy

Bristow¹

2019

Current Opinion in Psychology

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A key factor in the popularity of mindfulness training in public life is the conviction of grassroots advocates seeking to pass on the benefits they have experienced through personal practice. In this manner, mindfulness training has found its way into the realm of government, with parliamentary programmes seeding ambition among politicians to research and employ its transformative potential at both interpersonal and policy levels. In a high-stakes, adversarial setting, mindfulness practice helps elected representatives to cope with specific challenges, and an inquiry by the UK Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group has contributed to the emergence of mindfulness training in numerous policy narratives. By developing a new kind of familiarity with their own inner lives, a growing number of politicians are finding a new way to approach political discourse, and a corresponding enthusiasm for policy that tackles society's problems at the level of the human heart and mind. Some are starting to ask whether mindfulness might be more than a targeted intervention for specific issues, and may in fact contribute to the flourishing of society more broadlymarking an important development from concern with individual benefits to benefits for the whole.

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Section: Tracey Crouch Mp Parliamentary Under Secretary Of State Formentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindfulness in politics and public policy

Bristow¹

2019

Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…Being aware of one's own stressful emotions, in the present moment, apart from reducing emotional stress (Goodman & Schorling 2012), encourages self-compassion (Gauthier et al 2015) and improves one's awareness of the moment (Goyal et al 2014). The increased ability to identify and describe emotions, a term known as emotional clarity, could be a key element in the management of emotions (Cooper et al 2018).…”

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Mindfulness therapies on health professionals

Fernández

Ortiz‐Amo

Ortega‐Galán

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Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Health professionals are exposed to situations of emotional vulnerability by being in continuous contact with patients and their suffering, which can cause conditions such as compassion fatigue. To address this issue, therapies such as mindfulness are being used to reduce stress and promote self‐compassion. The objective of this research was to carry out a systematic review and meta‐analysis to analyse the types of mindfulness interventions that are being used for healthcare professionals and their effectiveness in reducing stress and improving self‐compassion and mindfulness. Following the PRISMA guideline, a systematic review of original studies was carried out in the following databases: Medline, Scopus, Cinhal, PsycINFO, Lilacs, and Science Direct, without a limited time frame. Controlled experimental mindfulness interventions on health professionals were selected, in which the following outcome variables were measured: stress, self‐compassion, and mindfulness. A meta‐analysis was performed with a random effects model. In cases of very high heterogeneity, the data were analysed by subgroup. Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction Therapy (MBSR) was the most often used in the studies. There is diversity in the implementation of MBSR, and a common finding is a reduction of stress and increased mindfulness in health professionals. However, studies that analyse self‐compassion are scarce. The effect of these therapies varies depending on how long the individual has been practising meditation. In conclusion, more studies are needed to describe the clinical usefulness of these programmes, to jointly analyse these three variables (stress, self‐compassion, and mindfulness), and to measure compassion fatigue as an outcome variable.

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“…Furthermore, it encourages individuals to develop a qualitative and articulated appreciation of their present experiences (51) that enables one to direct selective attention to peripheral cues and to re-integrate these cues to create meaning. Although initial evidence from a meta-analysis of 17 studies suggests that deficient emotional clarity, a major characteristic of alexithymia, may be enhanced by mindfulness-based interventions, there is a need for additional research (52). Research in the practice of mindfulness termed one’s experience of an openness to sensory data “decentering” (53), which describes how an individual increases his or her awareness of his or her unique motivational constraints (e.g., strength of association, type of mental images, metaphors) and of multiple sporadic multisensory signals.…”

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Motivated Cue Integration in Alexithymia: Improving Interoception and Emotion Information Processing by Awareness-of-Sensation Techniques

Shalev

2019

Front. Psychiatry

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Recent findings indicate that alexithymia is the result of a multidomain, multidimensional failure of interoception. Whereas much of the literature addresses the cognitive and affective aspects of alexithymia, less is known about the association between the failure of interoception and the process of motivated cue integration. The theory of motivated cue integration integrates high-level control processes with low-level embodied and contextual cues, suggesting that selective attention to internal and contextual cues results in the creation of meaning that, in turn, influences judgment and action generation. Conceptualized as a special case of the cue integration problem, alexithymia may be associated with restricted access to emotional cues, indicating impaired connectivity between low-level embodied cues and top–down goals and values. This problem may also be viewed as a means substitution problem, indicating the individual’s need for alternative multisensory information. Based on this reasoning, interventions that exploit awareness-of-sensation techniques (e.g., mindfulness, experiential approach, focusing) may help to improve the distinction between bodily sensation and interpretation and to create meaning of situational state by substitution of inaccessible affective cues with alternative cues. Accordingly, clinicians and neuropsychologists can help individuals who suffer from alexithymia by training them to use awareness-of-sensation techniques and directing their attention to alternative multisensory cues as well as alternative cognitive configurations (e.g., mental images). Integrating peripheral cues in the moment-by-moment generation of meaning and self-regulation can improve affective judgment through the exchange of inaccessible affective cues with alternative ones.

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Mindfulness-based interventions and their effects on emotional clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cited by 58 publications

References 79 publications

Mindfulness in politics and public policy

Mindfulness in politics and public policy

Mindfulness therapies on health professionals

Motivated Cue Integration in Alexithymia: Improving Interoception and Emotion Information Processing by Awareness-of-Sensation Techniques

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