MBSR history and background

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• Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary: Healing and the Mind
• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness 
• Guided meditation from UCLA
• What is Mindfulness?
• Jon Kabat-Zinn Books available from the Richmond Public Library​

Evidence-based MBSR research

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• American Mindfulness Research Association

Abbreviated List​ of Articles

• Bodenlos, J. S., et al. (2013). Mindfulness and alcohol problems in college students: the mediating effects of stress. Journal of American College Health, 61(6), 371-378.
• Bohlmeijer, E., et al. (2010). The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on mental health of adults with a chronic medical disease: a meta-analysis. Journal of psychosomatic research, 68(6), 539-544.
• Brand, S., et al. (2012). Influence of mindfulness practice on cortisol and sleep in long-term and short-term meditators. Neuropsychobiology, (3), 109-118.
• Epstein, R. M. (1999). Mindful practice. Jama, 282(9), 833-839.
• Felver, J., et al. (2018). Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Reduces Psychological Distress in College Students. College Student Journal, 52(3), 291-298.
• Hölzel, B., et al. (2011). How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective. Perspectives on psychological science, 6(6), 537-559.
• Hoge, E., et al. (2013). Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation for generalized anxiety disorder: Effects on anxiety and stress reactivity. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 74(8), 786-792.
• Khoury, B., et al. (2015). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for healthy individuals: A meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 78(6), 519-528.
• Ledesma, D., et al. (2009). Mindfulness-based stress reduction and cancer. Psychooncology, 18(6), 571-579.
• Mackenzie, C., et al. (2006). A brief mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention for nurses and nurse aides. Applied Nursing Research, 19(2), 105-109.

• Ramler, T., et al. (2016). Mindfulness and the college transition: the efficacy of an adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention in fostering adjustment among first-year students. Mindfulness, 7(1), 179-188.
• Rosenzweig, S., et al. (2010). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for chronic pain conditions: variation in treatment outcomes and role of home meditation practice. Journal of psychosomatic research, 68(1), 29-36.​
• Ștefan, C., et al. (2018). Investigating effects and mechanisms of a mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention in a sample of college students at risk for social anxiety. Mindfulness, 9(5), 1509-1521.
• Zainal, N., et al. (2013). The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction on mental health of breast cancer patients: A meta-analysis. Psychooncology, 22(7), 1457-1465.
• Zeidan, F., et al. (2010). Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training. Consciousness and cognition, 19(2), 597-605.

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