Mindfulness and Healing: A Clinician's Guide

In recent years, interest in the practice of mindfulness meditation as an integrative and functional therapeutic component to health and well-being has grown significantly. Numerous studies have supported its use in a variety of mental, emotional, and physical conditions. Designed to provide health care clinicians who may want to incorporate mindfulness into their clinical protocols, this guide is a broad-based, yet comprehensive, overview of mindfulness and healing. Included in this investigation are historical and cultural perspectives, possible mechanisms of action and applications, descriptions of popular mindfulness training programs, a focus on current seminal empirical data, and subjective case stories.