In this study, a concurrent randomized multiple baseline across three parent-child dyads single-case design was employed to evaluate the effects of a brief three-week parent training program, titled Practiced Routines. The Practiced Routines parent training program included positive behavior supports (PBS) and mindfulness strategies within the context of natural family routines. Three mothers and their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) participated. Visual analysis combined with a standardized mean difference analysis revealed mixed results with a medium effect found for increases in parent behavioral strategy use and small effects found for reductions in parent stress and child challenging behavior. All three mothers rated the social validity of the Practiced Routine program favorably. Implications for science and practice in educational and behavior health early intervention for families of children with ASD are discussed.

As Políticas Nacionais de Atenção à Saúde propostas nos últimos anos visam a garantir a execução de estratégicas educativas que promovam o cuidado integral dos usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar os benefícios do uso da prática contemplativa em grupos de usuários com dor crônica para, posteriormente, propor sua integração no serviço de atenção à saúde do SUS. O estudo consistiu numa intervenção na qual foi utilizada a prática contemplativa durante 13 semanas com oito participantes que apresentavam dores crônicas havia mais de um ano. Foram aplicados um questionário constituído de dados biossociodemográficos, a Escala Visual Analógica de intensidade de dor (EVA) e a Escala de Consciência e Plena Atenção (MAAS). Também foram utilizados questionários com perguntas abertas para avaliar os efeitos da intervenção sobre o cuidado dos participantes com os seus sintomas de dores crônicas. Os resultados indicam que a Prática Contemplativa possibilitou o gerenciamento da dor crônica e a melhora da atenção plena nas atividades do cotidiano, apresentando-se como uma ferramenta pedagógica para promover o autocuidado com vistas à educação do Ser. / The National Policy for Health Care proposed in recent years aimed at ensuring the implementation of educational strategies to provide comprehensive care for the users of the Unified Health System (SUS). This study assesses the benefits of contemplative practice in groups of users with chronic pain in order to propose their integration into the health care service offered by de SUS. For this study, Contemplative Practice was used for 13 weeks with eight participants who were suffering from chronic pain for more than one year. A questionnaire was used to collect biological, social and demographical data, in addition to the Visual Analogue Scale for pain intensity (VAS) and the Scale of Consciousness and Mindfulness (MAAS). Open-ended questionnaires were used to assess the effects of the intervention affected the participants on the participants’ care with chronic pain symptoms. The results indicate that the Contemplative Practice provides an opportunity to manage chronic pain and improve mindfulness in daily activities, functioning as as a tool to promote self-care and the education of Being.

Submitted by Tatiana Chagas Correia Haendel (tatianacorreia2013@gmail.com) on 2018-07-30T22:16:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE TATIANA CHAGAS CORREIA HAENDEL.pdf: 2233169 bytes, checksum: 67cdcf9c831a82525b75d7633e700319 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rosevânia Machado (rosevaniamachado.s@gmail.com) on 2018-07-31T13:21:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE TATIANA CHAGAS CORREIA HAENDEL.pdf: 2233169 bytes, checksum: 67cdcf9c831a82525b75d7633e700319 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-31T13:21:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE TATIANA CHAGAS CORREIA HAENDEL.pdf: 2233169 bytes, checksum: 67cdcf9c831a82525b75d7633e700319 (MD5) / CAPES / A baixa tolerância ao atraso do reforçador em crianças tem sido motivo de queixas frequentes, por parte de pais e professores, estando relacionada à rejeição por pares, ao baixo rendimento escolar e a alguns transtornos mentais. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar a viabilidade e os efeitos de uma intervenção baseada na atenção plena sobre a tolerância ao atraso do reforçador em crianças da educação infantil. O estudo teve delineamento quase-experimental, no qual participaram 22 crianças com idade entre 4 e 5 anos de ambos os sexos, distribuídas entre o grupo intervenção e o grupo comparação. As 11 crianças do grupo intervenção foram expostas à intervenção baseada na atenção plena, enquanto que as 11 crianças do grupo comparação participaram de encontros de contação de histórias durante o mesmo período do ano. No pré e no pós-teste, os pais e professores responderam o SNAP IV para avaliar a impulsividade das crianças. As crianças que apesentaram escores de impulsividade (acima de 1,78) relatados pais ou professores foram submetidas a dois testes de avaliação diretas da tolerância ao atraso do reforçador: O Teste de Tolerância ao Atraso do Doce e o Teste de Tolerância ao Atraso dos Pontos. A análise dos efeitos da intervenção revelou que os escores de impulsividade do SNAP IV respondido pela professora na análise dentre grupos, entre o pré e o pós-teste, foram significativamente afetados pela intervenção [F (1, 20) = 9,40, p < 0,05, d = 0,54]. A redução dos escores de impulsividade das crianças, a partir do relato da professora, pode ter ocorrido em decorrência do treino discriminativo proporcionado pela intervenção, que teria estabelecido a função de estímulos públicos e privados como contextos antecedentes para respostas de atentar das crianças. Assim, o fortalecimento deste repertório discriminativo e incompatível com respostas de impulsividade pode ter provocado a redução de respostas perturbadoras e inadequadas no contexto da sala de aula. Os escores de impulsividade relatados pelos informantes não foram afetados significativamente na comparação entre e dentre grupos, o que pode ter ocorrido em função de que as crianças que foram selecionadas para o grupo intervenção foram consideradas impulsivas pela professora, enquanto que as selecionadas para o grupo comparação foram as crianças consideradas impulsivas pelos informantes. O tempo de espera pelo do doce no Teste de Tolerância ao Atraso do Doce e as escolhas de autocontrole no Teste de Tolerância ao Atraso dos Pontos não foram afetados significativamente nem na comparação entre grupos, nem dentre grupos. Esses resultados são discutidos por meio das diferentes características medidas nos instrumentos. No pré-teste, os grupos não revelaram diferença significativa em relação às quatro variáveis dependentes do estudo. Apesar de terem sido encontradas diferenças significativas apenas nos escores de impulsividade relatados pela professora, esse dado é um indício do potencial da atenção plena, em especial do PSA, em aumentar a tolerância ao atraso do reforçador em crianças. Sugere-se a aplicação do PSA em diferentes escolas com objetivo de averiguar sua efetividade na redução de tolerância ao atraso do reforçador em outros contextos.

abstract: Within the past 10 years, there has been an increased interest in providing teachers with mindfulness training. This is due largely in part to the amount of stress that K-12 teachers report as a result of the profession and the research proposing that practicing mindfulness helps one cope with stress and offers the potential to promote one's well-being. This qualitative study explores the intersection of mindfulness and K-12 teaching. Four K-12 teachers who self-identified as mindfulness practitioners were interviewed, and their lived experiences as mindfulness practitioners and teachers are explored throughout this study. Through in-depth, phenomenologically-based interviews, the participants' life histories in relation to becoming mindfulness practitioners and teachers are uncovered, as well as their experiences as mindfulness practitioners in the classroom, and their reflections upon what is means to be a mindfulness practitioner and a teacher. For the participants in this study, they believed their mindfulness practices helped them cope with the demands of teaching. The participants also viewed mindfulness practices as a pedagogical tool for promoting their students' social and emotional well-being. As one of the first studies to explore teachers who have personal mindfulness practices and how those practices transfer or do not transfer into their professional experiences, it adds teachers' voices to the mindfulness in education phenomena. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Curriculum and Instruction 2015

abstract: Artists and designers are preparing for rapidly changing and competitive careers in creative fields that require a healthy dose of resiliency to persevere. However, little is known on how students within these fields become more self-efficacious, gritty, situated toward a growth mindset, and persistent over time. This mixed-method action research study investigates how undergraduate arts and design college students approach and navigate perceptions of failure as well as incorporates an intervention course designed to increase their self-efficacy, growth mindset, and academic persistence. Participants were eighteen arts and design students representing a variety of disciplines from an eight-week, one-unit, 300-level course that utilized arts-based methods, mindfulness, and active reflection. After the course, students had significant changes in their self-efficacy and academic persistence as well as moderate significant change in their fixed mindset. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2018

Submitted by Bertha Andrade Coelho (budcoelho@gmail.com) on 2018-04-24T15:22:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bertha Andrade Coelho IMPACTO DO MINDFULNESS EM MULHERES SUBMETIDAS A BIÓPSIA DE MAMA.pdf: 1828688 bytes, checksum: 411e3a6c3f67a774ee619b21e9f0f534 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by ROSANGELA APARECIDA LOBO null (rosangelalobo@btu.unesp.br) on 2018-04-26T17:07:04Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 coelho_ba_dr_bot.pdf: 1828688 bytes, checksum: 411e3a6c3f67a774ee619b21e9f0f534 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-26T17:07:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 coelho_ba_dr_bot.pdf: 1828688 bytes, checksum: 411e3a6c3f67a774ee619b21e9f0f534 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-02 / Introdução: Anualmente milhões de mulheres em todo o mundo são rastreadas para câncer de mama, sendo que algumas delas serão submetidas a procedimentos adicionais, entre eles a biópsia mamária. A biópsia de fragmento (core biopsy) guiada por ultrassonografia é um método minimamente invasivo para o diagnóstico de lesões mamárias suspeitas, e possui inúmeras vantagens quando comparada às biópsias cirúrgicas. A core biopsy é um procedimento ambulatorial no qual raramente é necessário o uso de medicações analgésicas após o procedimento. No entanto, qualquer procedimento invasivo, por menor que seja, vem acompanhado de experiências de ansiedade, dor e medo do desconhecido. A Medicina Anti-Estresse entende que os pensamentos, sentimentos, níveis de ansiedade e capacidade de lidar com eventos estressores podem afetar a saúde e a percepção de saúde. Programas de Medicina Anti Estresse reduzem o estresse e auxiliam os praticantes a terem atitudes positivas em seu cotidiano. O objetivo deste estudo controlado e randomizado foi avaliar o impacto das intervenções baseadas em Mindfulness (MBIs) em parâmetros quantitativos e qualitativos de estresse em pacientes submetidas a biópsias de mama guiadas por imagem. Métodos: Após assinarem o consentimento informado, 82 mulheres com indicação de biópsia de mama guiada por imagem foram randomizadas em dois grupos: grupo MBI ou grupo controle de cuidados padrão. Na semana anterior à biópsia, minutos antes na sala de espera e durante o procedimento, o grupo MBI foi exposto a meditações guiadas por áudio e músicas relaxantes e o grupo controle recebeu suporte da equipe de biópsia por meio de diálogo. As participantes preencheram questionários que avaliam depressão, ansiedade e estresse (DASS-21), dados demográficos e histórico médico, além de terem avaliado sua experiência de dor por meio de uma Escala Visual Analógica de Dor (EVA) e tiveram sua pressão arterial sistólica e diastólica, temperatura inicial e final, frequência cardíaca, saturação de oxigênio e cortisol salivar medidos. Resultados: A participação no grupo de intervenção foi associada a níveis reduzidos de estresse, pressão arterial, frequência cardíaca e saturação de oxigênio em comparação com a participação no grupo de cuidados padrão (valores de P < 0,05). Não houve diferença em relação aos níveis salivares de cortisol, temperatura periférica e percepção de dor entre os dois grupos estudados. Conclusão: Os resultados indicam que intervenções extremamente breves em Mindfuness são viáveis e aceitáveis, sugerindo que programas baseados em atenção plena podem ser benéficos para reduzir o desconforto em situações de estresse agudo. / Introduction: Each year worldwide millions of women are screened for breast cancer and some of them will undergo additional investigations, including breast biopsy. Ultrasound guided core needle biopsy is a minimally invasive method for the diagnosis of suspected mammary lesions and has many advantages when compared to surgical biopsies. Core biopsy is an outpatient procedure and analgesic medication is rarely necessary after tissue removal. Nevertheless, any invasive procedure, however small it may be, is accompanied by experiences of anxiety, pain and fear of the unknown. Anti Stress Medicine recognizes that thoughts, feelings, levels of anxiety, and ability to cope with stressful events can affect health and health perception. Anti-Stress Medicine programs reduce stress and help practitioners to have positive attitudes in their daily lives. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the impact of Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on quantitative and qualitative stress parameters on patients undergoing imaging-guided breast biopsies. Methods: After giving informed consent, 82 women that needed percutaneous imaging-guided breast biopsy were randomized into two groups: MBI group or standard care control group. One week before the biopsy procedure, minutes prior to the biopsy procedure on the waiting room and during the biopsy procedure, the MBI group was exposed to audio guided meditations and relaxing music and the standard care control group received supportive dialogue from the biopsy team. Participants completed questionnaires measuring depression, anxiety and stress (DASS-21), demographics, and medical history, evaluated their pain experience through a Visual Analogue Scale for Pain (VAS) and had their systolic and diastolic blood pressure, initial and final temperate, heart rate, oxygen saturation and cortisol salivary measured. Results: Participation in the mindfulness intervention group was associated with reduced levels of perceived stress, blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen saturation compared to participation in the standard care group (P values < 0.05). No difference was observed regarding salivary cortisol levels, peripheral temperature and pain perception between the two studied groups. Conclusion: Results indicate that an extremely brief mindfulness intervention is a feasible and acceptable intervention, suggesting that Mindfulness-based programs may be beneficial to reduce discomfort in acutely stressful settings.

Both mindfulness and authentic leadership base themselves on self-awareness. Authentic leadership has positively predicted organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and mindfulness has been positively correlated to work engagement, which has shared positive relationships with OCB. Job demands (JD) have been shown to compromise work engagement. Using a sample of 134 MBA and undergraduate students, a longitudinal design evaluated the meditational role of authentic functioning (AF) between mindfulness and OCB and the moderating role of JD. Over the course of three months, three questionnaires were administered to measure mindfulness, AF, OCB, and JD. Despite the positive predictive relationship between mindfulness and AF, there was not a significant predictive relationship between AF and OCB or the predictor (i.e. mindfulness) and criterion (i.e. OCB) variables, so structural equation modeling could not reveal if AF mediates the relationship between mindfulness and OCB. These findings suggest that AF could be a characteristic mechanism of mindfulness that helps facilitate certain behaviors. Future practical implications could suggest the prosocial value of cultivating mindfulness and authentic leadership to promote overall organizational functioning.

As Políticas Nacionais de Atenção à Saúde propostas nos últimos anos visam a garantir a execução de estratégicas educativas que promovam o cuidado integral dos usuários do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar os benefícios do uso da prática contemplativa em grupos de usuários com dor crônica para, posteriormente, propor sua integração no serviço de atenção à saúde do SUS. O estudo consistiu numa intervenção na qual foi utilizada a prática contemplativa durante 13 semanas com oito participantes que apresentavam dores crônicas havia mais de um ano. Foram aplicados um questionário constituído de dados biossociodemográficos, a Escala Visual Analógica de intensidade de dor (EVA) e a Escala de Consciência e Plena Atenção (MAAS). Também foram utilizados questionários com perguntas abertas para avaliar os efeitos da intervenção sobre o cuidado dos participantes com os seus sintomas de dores crônicas. Os resultados indicam que a Prática Contemplativa possibilitou o gerenciamento da dor crônica e a melhora da atenção plena nas atividades do cotidiano, apresentando-se como uma ferramenta pedagógica para promover o autocuidado com vistas à educação do Ser. / The National Policy for Health Care proposed in recent years aimed at ensuring the implementation of educational strategies to provide comprehensive care for the users of the Unified Health System (SUS). This study assesses the benefits of contemplative practice in groups of users with chronic pain in order to propose their integration into the health care service offered by de SUS. For this study, Contemplative Practice was used for 13 weeks with eight participants who were suffering from chronic pain for more than one year. A questionnaire was used to collect biological, social and demographical data, in addition to the Visual Analogue Scale for pain intensity (VAS) and the Scale of Consciousness and Mindfulness (MAAS). Open-ended questionnaires were used to assess the effects of the intervention affected the participants on the participants’ care with chronic pain symptoms. The results indicate that the Contemplative Practice provides an opportunity to manage chronic pain and improve mindfulness in daily activities, functioning as as a tool to promote self-care and the education of Being.

abstract: Increasing counselor trainees’ self-efficacy for multicultural counseling competence (MCC) is an essential part of their professional development to serve racially and ethnically diverse clients effectively. The present study examined the impact of multicultural training and the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention, compared to a control condition, on counselor trainees’ self-reported ethnocultural empathy and MCC. Data obtained from a sample of masters (n = 63) and doctoral (n = 23) counselor trainees were analyzed through a series of linear multiple hierarchical regression analyses. Consistent with previous research, results revealed that multicultural training significantly predicted scores of self-reported multicultural counseling knowledge and empathic feeling. The mindfulness intervention significantly predicted self-reported multicultural counseling knowledge. There was a significant interaction between condition (i.e., mindfulness intervention or control) and previous multicultural training when examining ethnocultural empathy’s empathic feeling and expression subscale. Specifically, trainees with lower levels of multicultural training who received the mindfulness intervention scored higher on empathic feeling compared to those in the control condition, while at higher levels of multicultural training there were no differences across condition. Implications for future research and counselor training are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Mindfulness Intervention / Control Condition / Masters Thesis Counseling 2018

abstract: School bullying is a serious problem for children and adolescents, associated with a multitude of psychological and behavioral problems. Interventions at the individual level have primarily been social skills training for victims of bullying. However, investigators have had mixed results; finding little change in victimization rates. It has been suggested victims of school bullying have the social skills necessary to be effective in a bullying situation; however they experience intense emotional arousal and negative thoughts leading to an inability to use social skills. One intervention that has been getting increasing acknowledgement for its utility in the intervention literature in psychology is mindfulness. However, there has been no research conducted examining the effects of mindfulness meditation on victims of bullying. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop an online intervention for victims of bullying that utilizes the cutting-edge technique of mindfulness and to determine the efficacy of this intervention in the context of bullying victimization. Participants were 32 adolescents ages 11 to 14 identified by their school facilitators as victims of bullying. Repeated measures ANOVAs were used to assess the efficacy of the NMT program versus a treatment as usual (TAU) social skills program. Results revealed significant decreases in victimization and increases in mindfulness among both treatment groups from pre-test to follow-up and post-test to follow-up assessments. There were no differences found between the two treatment groups for mean victimization or mindfulness scores. Overall, the NMT program appears to be a promising online intervention for bullied teens. Directions for future research and limitations of this study were also discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Counseling Psychology 2013