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Research Shows…
Enhanced emotion regulation Improve focus and attentional awareness Decrease stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms Expand our capacity for perspective taking Increase workplace engagement Healthier and more positive work environment
Mindfulness, Stress, and Burnout
- Among pediatric residents, mindfulness and self‐compassion
significantly associated with lower stress and confidence to use compassionate care (Kemper et al., 2019)
- Among early education educators, an 8‐week MBI significantly
related to reduced burnout, stress, and increased mindfulness, sleep quality and perceived control at work
(Hatton‐Bowers et al., 2018)
- MBI’s associated with positive well‐being and negatively
associated with stress, depression and anxiety among health care professionals (Lomas et al., 2019)
- Among pediatric ICU nurses who participated in a brief MBI
there were significant decrease in stress irrespective of meditation experience (Gauthier et al., 2015)
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Mindfulness Attentional Awareness
- Among teachers, mindfulness practices
associated with an increased awareness of body sensations, thoughts, and emotions (Hwang et a., 2017)
- Increased awareness for stepping back from
automatic habitual reactions was one of the most significant predictors for predicting workplace engagement and psychological well‐being
(Mainowski & Lim, 2015)
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Mindfulness Emotional Regulation Skills
- In a systematic review, mindfulness‐based
interventions have moderate effects in improving emotion regulation of teachers (Emerson et al., 2017)
- Among early care and education teachers, an 8‐week
mindfulness‐based intervention reduces emotion dysregulation (Hatton‐Bowers et al, 2019)
- Emotional self‐efficacy and psychological flexibility
increases among social workers who participated in a 8‐week mindfulness training course (Kinman et al., 2019)
- Acceptance important for MBI’s effect on emotion
regulation (Lindsay & Creswell, 2019).
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Mindfulness, Perspective Taking, & Relationships
- Mindfulness positively associated with perspective taking
with children who have challenging behaviors among preschool teachers (Jennings, 2015)
- Preschool teachers’ dispositional mindfulness positively
associated closeness and less conflict with children
(Becker et al., 2017)
- Preservice students’ higher mindfulness associated with
reflective practices and endorsing more developmentally supportive responses (Brophy‐Herb et al., 2018)
- Higher dispositional mindfulness associated with a
stronger working alliance among Early Head Start/Head Start home visitors (Becker et al., 2016)
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Mindfulness and Self‐Compassion
- Self‐compassion significantly associated with
psychological health and reduced stress among educators (Flook et al., 2013; Hwang et al., 2019)
- Mental health professional who participated in
MBSR had significant increases in self‐compassion
(Raab et al., 2015)
- Self‐compassion is a significant predictor of personal
and professional self‐care among clinical social workers (Miller et al., 2019)
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