Mindfulness in Healthcare
A topical collection in Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This collection belongs to the section "Nursing".
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Healthcare will focus on mindfulness in healthcare and mindful self-compassion. Mindfulness is known to positively impact numerous measures of personal health, including stress, anxiety, and depression, and improve mental and physical health. Mindfulness-based interventions have been effective in relieving pain and other symptoms, supporting and enhancing resilience, and improving academic success. In addition, both interpersonal relationships and behavioral clinical skills are improved by fostering and developing empathy and compassion. Mindfulness training is therefore promoted among healthcare providers and patients alike. Its huge potential to promote health and enrich the lives of those who participate is encouraged in healthcare. In addition, mindful self-compassion which is the combination of mindfulness skills and practice with the emotional practice of self-compassion offers participants the motivation to encourage and self-soothe when we suffer or feel inadequate.
We welcome papers exploring the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying the benefits of mindfulness and mindfulness self-compassion training; and mindfulness-based interventions to improve stress, resilience, and general well-being for both patients and healthcare staff and the impact of innovative mindfulness training programs in healthcare. We will feature original research and include interesting clinical studies, reviews, short reports, narratives, and opinion pieces from researchers interested in this research topic.
Dr. Helen Noble
Dr. Ian Walsh
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Mindfulness
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction
- Compassion
- Healthcare
- Well-being