The Evaluation of a Mind-Body Intervention (MBT-T) for Stress Reduction in Academic Settings: A Pilot Study

Abstract

This study is aimed at evaluating the outcomes of mind–body transformation therapy (MBT-T), previously known as the creative psychosocial genomic healing experience© (CPGHE). The intervention was aimed at reducing the perceived level of stress in two non-clinical groups of students with different educational levels and different expertise in the domain of well-being. Whereas participants from the first group were first-year university students, participants from the second group were students attending a post-graduate program in psychotherapy. All participants (n = 159) were exposed to a single session of MBT-T, each group in a separate session. The results of two paired-samples t-tests, conducted separately on the two samples, showed that there was a statistically significant reduction in the participants’ perceived level of stress between pre- and post-intervention states in both samples (t88 = 5.39, p < 0.001; t53 = 4.56, p < 0.001 respectively). The results, therefore, showed that a single session of MBT-T was beneficial in reducing the perceived level of stress in both first-year university students and students attending a post-graduate program in psychotherapy, regardless of educational level and expertise in the domain of well-being.

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“…MBT-T follows a structured protocol, based on a 4-stage creative process and it is characterized by a very easy to learn procedure allowing individuals to obtain stress reduction without the need for traditional, complex, and intricate methods [ 68 , 69 , 70 ]. MBT-T protocol can be applied both to individuals and groups and it is based on the use of: the natural activity-rest physiologic cycle (BRAC) [ 59 , 99 ]; the ultradian biological rhythms; the biological plasticity showed by individuals genes expression; the relaxion response (RR) [ 31 , 38 , 49 , 51 , 58 ].…”

“…The clinical protocol foresees movements of the palms of the hands that the therapist shows to the patients and that the patient will perform in turn, within each of the four phases of the creative process: Phase 1—initiation and creative expectation (focus on the sensations experienced in hic et nunc); Phase 2—incubation and access to emerging experience (review of problems); Phase 3—illumination with a new perspective oriented to problem solving (insight and problem-solving); Phase 4—assessment, planning (reality assessment and self-care) [ 68 ]. This will allow to start a mind-body therapeutic dialogue, able to generate new awareness for the management, the facing, and/or the solution of the problems that the patient faces daily in the relationship with the disease.…”

“…It moves from a naturalistic perspective of therapy and it is based on the use of individual’s natural biological rhythms to set the best conditions for activating inner mind-body healing processes, in order to face the different challenges of individual’s organism, such as stress-related dysfunctions of different psychological and mind-body chronic disorders [ 35 , 50 , 51 , 57 , 65 ]. MBT-T has proved to be a valid method for promoting well-being and to reduce stress [ 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 ]. Specifically, different studies have highlighted that MBT-T can modulate experience dependent genes to reduce symptoms of the stress related disorders and to facilitate mind-body healing [ 35 , 38 , 58 , 68 , 69 , 70 ].…”

“…MBT-T has proved to be a valid method for promoting well-being and to reduce stress [ 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 ]. Specifically, different studies have highlighted that MBT-T can modulate experience dependent genes to reduce symptoms of the stress related disorders and to facilitate mind-body healing [ 35 , 38 , 58 , 68 , 69 , 70 ].…”