Second Generation Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Idea, Empirical Research and Theoretical Debates

Subjects: Psychology >> Clinical and Counseling Psychology Subjects: Psychology >> Medical Psychology submitted time 2019-10-14

冉俐雯 王玲桂 曾祥龙

Abstract： Rising in recent years, the “Second Generation Mindfulness-Based Interventions” (SG-MBIs) advocates the concept of mindfulness as an active and discriminative form of awareness, with other practices like Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations and Emptiness Meditation being brought in, it also emphasizes the ethics cultivation and the life-style beyond treatment. At the empirical level, preliminary researches have supported the positive effects of several SG-MBIs, but studies were still inadequate. Among those imported practices, only the effects of Loving-kindness and Compassion Meditations were supported by a large number of empirical studies, while empirical researches on other contents were rarely conducted. At the theoretical level, the SG-MBIs are being questioned in terms of ethics for the addition of more Buddhist contents, and also highlights philosophical problems that existed chronically in the mindfulness-based interventions by explicitly emphasizing mindfulness as daily life-style.

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