PTSD, Mindfulness Research

[yeti2213]

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Hi Friends,

I am trying to get familiar with the research (for both general interest and application purposes) in both these areas PTSD and also Mindful meditation (or meditation in general). Google scholars and the library's search both yield much more information than I can possibly process right now, so I was wondering... can anyone point me to

1. a good recent comprehensive review of the literature on either of these topics
2. a couple of the seminal/important papers that I should start out with

your responses are much appreciated.

 

[cara susanna]

Are you interested in only mindfulness meditation/practice or also in disposition to mindfulness?

Jennifer Waltz at U of Montana has done a lot of work on the topic.

 

[PsychBA]

http://www.mindfulnesscalgary.ca/

Go to links and download section. There are four or five articles there, all of which are quite important, especially the 2003 one by Baer. You should be able to download the pdf files.

 

[yeti2213]

Are you interested in only mindfulness meditation/practice or also in disposition to mindfulness?

thanks to you both, starting with the baer paper.

@cara what is the difference in how they are conceptualized? I would imagine the point of the practice was to make it a disposition

 

[cara susanna]

Disposition is looked at as more of a personality trait, like how mindful you are in everyday life. It has been found that practice raises it, of course. The most used measure for disposition to mindfulness is the FFMQ by Baer.

I know there has been a lot of work on PTSD and disposition to mindfulness. I actually have some data of my own to support a relationship, although I haven't done any sophisticated analyses or written it up yet.

 

[Anon15]

http://psych.umb.edu/faculty/roemer/RoemerResearchCollaborative/Publications.html

 

[Psychadelic2012]

Disposition is looked at as more of a personality trait, like how mindful you are in everyday life. It has been found that practice raises it, of course. The most used measure for disposition to mindfulness is the FFMQ by Baer.

There is also the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) by Brown & Ryan (2003), also a measure of trait mindfulness.

 

[cara susanna]

And the Cognitive Affective Mindfulness Scale Revised. I'm a fan of all three, but the MAAS and CAMS-R only measure certain aspects of it whereas the FFMQ includes all different aspects.

 

[Psychadelic2012]

And the Cognitive Affective Mindfulness Scale Revised. I'm a fan of all three, but the MAAS and CAMS-R only measure certain aspects of it whereas the FFMQ includes all different aspects.

Ooh, say more. Do you have a reference for where that is discussed somewhere in the literature? Interesting.

 

[cara susanna]

If you read the original articles on the development of each questionnaire, the authors say as much. The CAMS-R measures the cognitive and emotional aspects of mindfulness and the MAAS is more focused on being aware and attentive to the current moment.

I like all three, like I said, it's just if you want to include one mindfulness measure I think the FFMQ is the best way to go because it has five different subscales.

 

[PsychBA]

As an aside point, mindfulness is part of so many religious practices. When I was a practicing Muslim, I would constantly make use of it without even knowing it. I highly recommend it as a way of centering and grounding yourself and dealing with stress, especially given the pace of life these days and constant change all around us.

 

[yeti2213]

Disposition is looked at as more of a personality trait, like how mindful you are in everyday life. It has been found that practice raises it, of course. The most used measure for disposition to mindfulness is the FFMQ by Baer.

Oh cool. Think I get it. Disposition looks at mindfulness as a human creatures propensity to be mindful (and the proceeds to look at how having higher or lower levels of it plays out in various situations) where as mindfulness as a practice is more focused on do it for a period of time and see outcome. Is that roughly correct?

If I got that right. My interest would be in consuming lots of mindfulness as a disposition research but actually doing work in mindfulness as a practice.

 

[cara susanna]

You're correct, that's basically what the difference is.

If you're interested in mindfulness interventions for PTSD, you should to consider more details. For instance, would it be mindfulness only, or some type of mindfulness-based therapy?

 

[yeti2213]

Cara,

I'm interested in trauma in general and mindfulness based interventions. PTSD specifically was just one thread I was/am chasing down since it seems to be paired a lot with mindfulness in the literature. I might end up as some where as specific as mindfulness based PTSD interventions or somewhere more general in terms of trauma.

I'm curious about the work you are doing. But don't imagine anyone wants to splash that all over a public forum. Mind if I PM you.

 

[cara susanna]

Not at all, go ahead.

And if you're interested in grad work in mindfulness and trauma, definitely look into Jennifer Waltz at U of Montana.