Mindfulness-based interventions in an inpatient setting
pp. 447-462
in: Fabrizio Didonna (ed), Clinical handbook of mindfulness, Berlin, Springer, 2009Abstract
In the past two decades the use of mindfulness-based interventions in clinical settings has quickly become more and more common especially in outpatient treatment and above all with patients whose problems are not extremely serious and who are not in the acute phase of the disease (Baer, 2003). There has been debate about whether or not it is possible and useful to use mindfulness therapy with serious, chronic psychiatric pathologies in the acute phase (Baer, 2003; Segal, Williams, Teasdale, 2002, see also Chapter 18 of this volume). There is, however, some evidence that acceptance and mindfulness-based treatment programs can be usefully adopted in clinical inpatient settings and for challenging problems, especially for suicidal adolescent inpatients (Katz, Gunasekara, & Miller, 2002; Katz et al.