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Texto Sobre Mindfulness
Texto Sobre Mindfulness
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Cognitive-
Cognitive
iti -Behavioral
B h i l Therapy
Th Mindfulness, acceptance and emotional schemas have each
Outpatients been associated with challenging experiential avoidance
and
d contributing
t ib ti to
t emotion
ti regulation.
l ti
Laura R. Silberstein PsyD, This study focuses on the relationships between
Dennis
D i D.
D Tirch
Ti h PhD & Robert
R b tL L. L
Leahy
h PhD emotional schemas, psychological flexibility and
dispositional mindfulness.
American Institute for Cognitive
g Therapy
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Dispositional mindfulness has been associated with an increased Experiential avoidance and acceptance are subsumed by
capacity to let go of negative thoughts and is viewed as a core psychological flexibility, although they are still useful ways
process in psychological flexibility (Frewen, Evans, Maraj, Dozois, and Partridge, to describe aspects of this construct (Bond, et al., In press).
2008; Hayes
Hayes, Strosahl and Wilson,
Wilson 1999).
1999)
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Psychological Flexibility Psychological Flexibility
Experiential
E i ti l acceptance
t is the practice
i th ti off jjustt lletting
tti things
thi Experiential avoidance results when an individual is unwilling to
be and experiencing them as they are. It involves being remain in contact with a particular experience and attempts to
alter the form or frequency of these experiences (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford,
open to an experience and willing to remain in contact with Follette, and Strosahl, 1996).
it, even if the experience is unpleasant (Campbell-Sills, Barlow, Brown,
and Hofman, 2006). Avoidance can be considered a broad category or class of
behaviors that attempt to escape, avoid or modify a particular
Acceptance
A t can be
b described
d ib d as second-order
d d change
h or internal or external stimulus (Chapman,
(Chapman Gratz,
Gratz and Brown,
Brown 2006).
2006)
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F
Similarly, emotion schemas have also been described as Emotional schema dimensions range from flexible and
adaptive
p to more rigid
g and maladaptive.
p
causal or mediating processes that involve the continual
dynamic interaction of emotion, cognition and behavior This model of emotional schemas contends that those who
(Izard, 2009).
endorse maladaptive emotional schemas are more likely to
resist
i certain
i emotions
i and
d engage in
i avoidant
id strategies
i
Emotional schemas can be considered complex emotion- (Leahy 2002).
cognition-action systems that, after a period of social and
emotional development, inform emotional processing and Also
Al emphasizes
h i the
h positive
i i implications
i li i in
i overcoming
i
avoidance, increasing emotional processing, and the role of
emotion regulation strategies (Izard, 2009; Leahy, 2002). cognition in emotional experiencing (Leahy 2007).
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Present Study Rationale Current Study
The
Th currentt study
t d aims
i tto explore
l the relationships
th l ti hi b between
t The
Th current research
h iis a cross sectional,
i l observational
b i l
emotional schemas, psychological flexibility and study of current patients at the American Institute for
dispositional
p mindfulness. Cognitive Therapy.
This research also examines the relative contribution of 202 patients volunteered to complete three brief measures
mindful awareness and emotional schemas to assessing dispositional mindfulness,
mindfulness psychological
psychological flexibility. flexibility, and emotional schemas. The responses are
largely from intake assessments, typically collected at the
The roles of dispositional mindfulness and those emotional b i i off therapy.
beginning h
schemas which represent emotion regulation strategies will
be explored in terms of their relationship with psychological The cognitive-behavioral therapy offered at this institute
flexibility. primarily was non-manualized and included elements of
Beckian Cognitive Therapy and integrated with elements of
ACT DBT,
ACT, DBT and Buddhist Psychology.
Psychology
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