TY - JOUR
T1 - Traumatic bereavement and mindfulness
T2 - A preliminary study of mental health outcomes using the ATTEND model
AU - Thieleman, Kara
AU - Cacciatore, Joanne
AU - Hill, Patricia Wonch
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.
PY - 2014/8/1
Y1 - 2014/8/1
N2 - This article presents a quasi-experimental study of a mindfulness-based intervention for traumatically bereaved individuals using a single group with pre-test and post-test design. The intervention consists of the ATTEND model, which is comprised of the following elements practiced by the clinician: attunement, trust, therapeutic touch, egalitarianism, nuance, and death education. The study is based on the charts of 42 clients seeking grief counseling at a mental health agency viewed retrospectively. Participants’ intake scores on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), which measures trauma symptoms, and 25-item Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25), which measures depressive and anxious symptoms, were compared to their scores after an average of 14.64 hours of counseling. Paired samples t tests showed a statistically significant decline in trauma symptoms on the IES-R, and in anxious and depressive symptoms on the HSCL-25. These results provide preliminary support for the use of this mindfulness-based approach for difficulties associated with traumatic bereavement, though more extensive research is needed to determine the effectiveness of this approach.
AB - This article presents a quasi-experimental study of a mindfulness-based intervention for traumatically bereaved individuals using a single group with pre-test and post-test design. The intervention consists of the ATTEND model, which is comprised of the following elements practiced by the clinician: attunement, trust, therapeutic touch, egalitarianism, nuance, and death education. The study is based on the charts of 42 clients seeking grief counseling at a mental health agency viewed retrospectively. Participants’ intake scores on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), which measures trauma symptoms, and 25-item Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25), which measures depressive and anxious symptoms, were compared to their scores after an average of 14.64 hours of counseling. Paired samples t tests showed a statistically significant decline in trauma symptoms on the IES-R, and in anxious and depressive symptoms on the HSCL-25. These results provide preliminary support for the use of this mindfulness-based approach for difficulties associated with traumatic bereavement, though more extensive research is needed to determine the effectiveness of this approach.
KW - Bereavement
KW - Grief
KW - Intervention
KW - Mental health
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Trauma
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U2 - 10.1007/s10615-014-0491-4
DO - 10.1007/s10615-014-0491-4
M3 - Article
SN - 0091-1674
VL - 42
SP - 260
EP - 268
JO - Clinical Social Work Journal
JF - Clinical Social Work Journal
IS - 3
ER -