MINDFULNESS FOR EVERYDAY LIVING. A GUIDE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS

Chapter 1. Introduction to Mindfulness
Chapter 2. Mindfulness and Stress Reduction
Chapter 3. Mindfulness and Positive Living
Chapter 4. Mindfulness and Compassion
Chapter 5. Mindfulness for Pediatric Health Conditions
Chapter 6. Autism, Emotions, and Mindfulness
Chapter 7. Mindful Parenting
Chapter 8. Mindfulness Strategies to Improve Marriage
Chapter 9. Strengthening Emotional and Physical Intimacy: Creating a Mindful Marriage
Chapter 10. Mindful Counseling
Chapter 11. Living Mindfully.

This book presents practical approaches for integrating mindfulness principles into daily life. It examines how to incorporate mindfulness principles into interventions across various fields and with different client populations. In addition, the volume describes how to teach clients to integrate mindfulness techniques into daily living – from general stress reduction and compassionate positive living to working with children with medical conditions or autism to mindful parenting and healthy marriages. The book explains key concepts clearly and succinctly and details practical daily approaches and use. Each chapter presents cutting-edge research that is integrated into effective, proven interventions that represent the gold standard of care and are simple and powerful to use, and concludes with recommendations on how each individual can create his or her own personalized mindfulness approach that matches his or her needs and situation. This book is a must have resource for clinicians, therapists, and health professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in clinical psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, and developmental psychology.

Features
• Presents practical ways to integrate mindfulness principles into daily life
• Details ways in which therapists can incorporate mindfulness techniques into client interventions
• Examines key concepts for patient stress reduction and positive and compassionate living, and how clients can develop their own personalized approach to practice
• Explores methods for working with children with medical and mental health conditions (e.g., autism)
• Discusses mindful parenting and marriage strategies and interventions