Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training Program

Context:
- It can (typically) involve Mindfulness Training.
- It can (typically) be an Eight-Week Program.
- It can be associated with MBSR Research Studies.
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See: Full Catastrophe Living, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Practice, Mindful Yoga.

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- Q: What is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) therapy?
- A: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a type of therapy that involves mindfulness meditation and other mindfulness-based practices to help people manage stress and improve their overall well-being. It was developed in the 1970s by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
  MBSR typically involves participating in an 8-week group program that includes weekly group meetings and daily home practice. During the group meetings, individuals learn mindfulness meditation techniques, such as body scan meditation and sitting meditation, as well as other mindfulness practices, like gentle yoga and mindful movement. They also learn how to apply mindfulness to everyday life and to their specific stressors. The daily home practice typically involves practicing mindfulness meditation and other mindfulness exercises for about 45 minutes per day.
  MBSR has been shown to be effective in reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and in improving overall well-being. It is often used as an adjunctive treatment for a variety of physical and mental health conditions, such as chronic pain, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. It is also increasingly being used as a preventative measure for people who want to improve their overall well-being and reduce the risk of developing stress-related conditions.

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduction Retrieved:2022-12-30.
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week evidence-based program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain.^[1] Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga and exploration of patterns of behaviour, thinking, feeling and action.^[1]^[2] Mindfulness can be understood as the non-judgmental acceptance and investigation of present experience, including body sensations, internal mental states, thoughts, emotions, impulses and memories, in order to reduce suffering or distress and to increase well-being.^[1] Mindfulness meditation is a method by which attention skills are cultivated, emotional regulation is developed, and rumination and worry are significantly reduced.^[3] ^[1] During the past decades, mindfulness meditation has been the subject of more controlled clinical research, which suggests its potential beneficial effects for mental health, as well as physical health. While MBSR has its roots in Buddhist wisdom teachings, the program itself is secular.^[1] The MBSR program is described in detail in Kabat-Zinn's 1990 book Full Catastrophe Living.^[1]

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(Vonderlin et al., 2020) ⇒ Ruben Vonderlin, Miriam Biermann, Martin Bohus, and Lisa Lyssenko. (2020). “Mindfulness-based Programs in the Workplace: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” Mindfulness, 11(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01328-3
- QUOTE: ... Several authors have emphasized the large variability across MBPs and the associated difficulties to evaluate their efficacy (e.g., Van Dam et al. 2018). Most empirical research in healthy populations has been conducted on the “classical” manualized form of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR; Kabat-Zinn 1990; Khoury et al. 2015), but a variety of other multicomponent programs have been designed, combining basic meditation practices with yoga exercises, informal mindfulness techniques and elements of compassion. In workplace settings, the variability of MBPs seems to be even larger (Jamieson and Tuckey 2017). To consider the needs of employees and organizations, a variety of modifications have been made to manualized MBPs, such as shortened versions of MBSR (e.g., Huang et al. 2015; Klatt et al. 2009; Manotas et al. 2014) and several idiosyncratic curricula have been developed, which couple mindfulness elements with other training, such as emotion regulation, compassion, or physical exercise to produce beneficial synergistic effects (e.g., Jennings et al. 2013) . ...