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Working in the present moment: The impact of mindfulness ontrainee psychotherapists- experience of relational depth 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Baker, S.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2016
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH
  • 발행사항Vol.16No.1[2016]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1473-3145
  • 소개/요약To explore the lived experience and impact of a brief mindfulness meditation training intervention on trainee psychological therapists, in particular their experiences of relational depth, the cultivation of therapeutic qualities and their use of the self in the therapeutic relationship. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to investigate participants’ lived experience of mindfulness. Fifteen participants completed an eight-week MBSR/MBCT mindfulness training, contextualised for therapists, and eight were interviewed four months later. Participants experienced a range of positive outcomes and meaningful effects at both a personal and professional level, with mindfulness appearing to facilitate ‘being versus doing’ qualities and the potential for enhanced relational depth. The findings indicate the potential of mindfulness as a complementary clinical training and were suggestive of a process model, where ‘therapist intrapersonal attunement’ facilitates ‘therapist-client interpersonal attunement’ that in turn promotes ‘client self-attunement’, in a ‘co-created co-meditation space’.