Mindfulness‐based approaches: are they all the same?
2011/01/19 by Alberto Chiesa, Peter Malinowski · 457 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Acceptance and commitment therapy #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Buddhism #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive therapy #Dialectical behavior therapy #Intervention (counseling) #Meditation #Mindfulness #Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions #Psychiatry #Psychological intervention #Psychology #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Psychotherapist #Stress reduction
paper · doi:10.1002/jclp.20776
published in Journal of Clinical Psychology 67(4), 404-424 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2011/01/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Abstract
Mindfulness-based approaches are increasingly employed as interventions for treating a variety of psychological, psychiatric and physical problems. Such approaches include ancient Buddhist mindfulness meditations such as Vipassana and Zen meditations, modern group-based standardized meditations, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and further psychological interventions, such as dialectical behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. We review commonalities and differences of these interventions regarding philosophical background, main techniques, aims, outcomes, neurobiology and psychological mechanisms. In sum, the currently applied mindfulness-based interventions show large differences in the way mindfulness is conceptualized and practiced. The decision to consider such practices as unitary or as distinct phenomena will probably influence the direction of future research.
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