Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

Background Complex traumatic events associated with armed conflict, forcible
displacement, childhood sexual abuse, and domestic violence are increasingly prevalent …

Many people with depression or anxiety turn to nonpharmacologic and nonconventional
interventions, including exercise, yoga, meditation, tai chi, or qi gong. Meta-analyses and …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can become a chronic and severely disabling
condition resulting in a reduced quality of life and increased economic burden. The disorder …

Mindfulness interventions aim to foster greater attention to and awareness of present
moment experience. There has been a dramatic increase in randomized controlled trials …

Despite evidence linking trait mindfulness and mindfulness training with a broad range of
effects, still little is known about its underlying active mechanisms. Mindfulness is commonly …

Mindfulness-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have emerged as
promising adjunctive or alternative intervention approaches. A sco** review of the …

Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness
interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews …

PTSD is characterized by the persistence of intense reactions to reminders of a traumatic
event, altered mood, a sense of imminent threat, disturbed sleep, and hypervigilance …

Description: The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD)
worked together to revise the 2017 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management …