Practitioner’s Guide to Ethics and Mindfulness-Based Interventions

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This book focuses on the role of ethics in the application of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) in clinical practice. The book offers an overview of the role of ethics in the cultivation of mindfulness and explores the way in which ethics have been embedded in the curriculum of MBIs and MBPs. Chapters review current training processes and examines the issues around incorporating ethics into MBIs and MBPs detailed for non-secular audiences, including training clinicians, developing program curriculum, and dealing with specific client populations. Chapters also examine new, second-generation MBIs and MBPs, the result of the call for more advanced mindfulness-based practices . The book addresses the increasing popularity of mindfulness in therapeutic interventions, but stresses that it remains a new treatment methodology and in order to achieve best practice status, mindfulness interventions must offer a clear understanding of their potential and limits. Topics featured in this book include: • Transparency in mindfulness programs.• Teaching ethics and mindfulness to physicians and healthcare professionals. • The Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management (MBSM) program and its use in treating mental health issues.• The efficacy and ethical considerations of teaching mindfulness in businesses. • The Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Program. • The application of mindfulness in the military context. Practitioner’s Guide to Mindfulness and Ethics is a must-have resource for clinical psychologists and affiliated medical, and mental health professionals, including specialists in complementary and alternative medicine and psychiatry. Social workers considering or already using mindfulness in practice will also find it highly useful. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: A New Hope (Donald McCown)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Is Mindfulness Secular or Religious, and Does It Matter? (Jane F. Compson)....Pages 23-44 Ethics, Transparency, and Diversity in Mindfulness Programs (Candy Gunther Brown)....Pages 45-85 Professional Ethics and Personal Values in Mindfulness-Based Programs: A Secular Psychological Perspective (Ruth Baer, Laura M. Nagy)....Pages 87-111 Ethics and Teaching Mindfulness to Physicians and Health Care Professionals (Michael Krasner, Patricia Lück)....Pages 113-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 The Moral Arc of Mindfulness: Cultivating Concentration, Wisdom, and Compassion (Lynette M. Monteiro)....Pages 143-162 The Purpose, Mechanisms, and Benefits of Cultivating Ethics in Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (Bruno A. Cayoun)....Pages 163-192 Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management: Mindfulness as Applied Ethics (Lynette M. Monteiro, Frank Musten)....Pages 193-227 Promoting the Ethics of Care in a Mindfulness-Based Program for Teachers (Patricia A. Jennings, Anthony A. DeMauro)....Pages 229-251 Compassion as the Highest Ethic (James N. Kirby, Stanley R. Steindl, James R. Doty)....Pages 253-277 Core Values in Mindful Self-Compassion (Pittman McGehee, Christopher Germer, Kristin Neff)....Pages 279-293 Mindfulness, Compassion, and the Foundations of Global Health Ethics (David G. Addiss)....Pages 295-322 Front Matter ....Pages 323-323 Ethics of Mindfulness in Organizations (Frank Musten)....Pages 325-343 Paradoxes of Teaching Mindfulness in Business (Shalini Bahl)....Pages 345-371 Mindfulness and Minefields: Walking the Challenging Path of Awareness for Soldiers and Veterans (Sean Bruyea)....Pages 373-408 Back Matter ....Pages 409-418