Mindfulness for Everyday Living

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Mindfulness and the Middle Way of Stress Reduction

   • Patrick R. Steffen, Sheilagh Fox, Brodrick Brown

   Pages 1-9

3. Mindfulness and Positive Living

   • Jared S. Warren

   Pages 11-23

4. Compassion for Everyday Living

   • Jenn Fox, Gary Burlingame

   Pages 25-42

5. Mindfulness for Pediatric Health Conditions

   • Kara M. Duraccio, Chad D. Jensen

   Pages 43-51

6. Autism, Emotions, and Mindfulness

   • Mikle South

   Pages 53-67

7. Mindful Parenting

   • Corinne E. Ruth, Kat T. Green

   Pages 69-84

8. Mindfulness in Marriage

   • Sam Ryland, Lee Johnson

   Pages 85-90

9. Strengthening Emotional and Physical Intimacy: Creating a Mindful Marriage

   • Jason B. Whiting, Chelom E. Leavitt, Jeremy S. Boden

   Pages 91-103

10. Mindfulness and Mental Health

    • Meredith S. Pescatello, Tyler R. Pedersen

    Pages 105-122

11. Back Matter

    Pages 123-124

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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.

• Autism and mindfulness
• Children’s health and mindfulness
• Compassion and mindfulness
• Counseling and mindfulness
• Emotion regulation and mindfulness
• Emotional intimacy and mindfulness
• Marital quality and mindfulness
• Marriage and mindfulness
• Mindful living
• Mindfulness and healthy living
• Parenting and mindfulness
• Partner intimacy and mindfulness
• Pediatric health and mindfulness
• Physical intimacy and mindfulness
• Positive living and compassion
• Positive psychology and mindfulness
• Psychotherapy and mindfulness
• Stress management and mindfulness
• Stress reduction and mindfulness

• Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA

  Patrick R. Steffen

Patrick R. Steffen, Ph.D., BCB, is a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University. He has served as an Alcuin Fellow in the Honors Program and as the Director of the BYU Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. His clinical and research interests focus on stress reduction, stress resilience, and biofeedback, with specific interests in culture, spirituality, and health. He is past president of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and he is Associate Editor for the journal Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He is the author of numerous research articles published in leading journals in the fields of health psychology and mind/body medicine and is the author of chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology and the Handbook of Primary Care Psychology. Before coming to BYU, Dr. Steffen was a postdoctoral research fellow in cardiovascular behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center and he received his PhD and master’s degrees at the University of Miami in clinical health psychology.

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