Although many clinical treatments target symptoms of PTSD, an optimal treatment strategy would also address the many health problems that co-occur. To address this need, this book offers mindfulnessbased interventions.
In ""Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression"", Dr. Zindel V. Segal demonstrates a mind-body approach to helping clients who have experienced depression to prevent a relapse into depressive symptoms. Depression poses an ongoing challenge to staying well because certain thought patterns, usually involving rumination or self-criticism, ......
Mindfulness has been applied to a variety of mental and physical disorders and has also been useful within educational, military, and corporate settings. In this video, Dr. Rezvan Ameli demonstrates three mindfulness exercises within a group therapy setting and also discusses the science and practice of mindfulness.
Mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia, or MBTI, combines mindfulness principles and practices with behavioural techniques to treat this common issue. In this video, Dr. Jason C. Ong works with a group of young male clients who are all suffering from various sleep issues. Dr. Ong teaches behavioural strategies within a mindfulness framework to ......
Dr. Siegel works with a young man who presents with stress-related chronic neck pain. First he helps the client to see that the mind plays a critical role in his presenting problem. Next, using the therapeutic understanding that resistance to mental and physical discomfort exacerbates suffering, he works to identify the physical sensations and ......
Studies have shown that heavy drinkers who begin meditating show a decrease in the amount they drink. Here, the author demonstrates his meditative technique for helping clients with substance addictions.
Mindful sport performance enhancement (MSPE) is a mental training program designed to help athletes, coaches, and other performers develop a set of core skills that can facilitate peak performance and optimal experience. This approach is rooted in the practice of mindfulness and typically administered in a group format, but it can also be used ......
All athletes and coaches know that peak performance requires more than just physical exertion. There is a psychological component as well. This book serves as a comprehensive resource on the history, theory, and practice of mindfulness in sport, and offers an exciting approach to performance enhancement for athletes and coaches at all levels, from ......
Challenging current definitions of trauma, Kevin L. Nadal distils the latest research on the effects of microaggressions, looking at how regular exposure to subtle discrimination can, over time, elicit similar symptoms to severe trauma. This brief but comprehensive volume includes illustrative case studies that will help practitioners understand ......
