Mindfulness for Everyday Living: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

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.

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.