The current study evaluated three subjects with developmental disabilities, using a Mindfulness activity protocol to promote psychological flexibility, as well as exercising this developed flexibility to reduce problem behaviors. The success of the Mindfulness procedure was evaluated using a multiple baseline across participants design. Results of this study presented that after partaking in Mindfulness activities, all participants displayed decreases in problematic behavior, as well as increased scores on the Children’s Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire (CPFQ). Overall, there was a general trend of reduced problematic behavior from baseline to post-intervention. Participants’ behavioral frequency rates were reduxed an overall average of 25.2%. In addition to general maladaptive behavior reductions, participants’ CPFQ scores were improved across participants by an overall average improvement of 11.8%.

This project embraces the intersection of biophilic design and mindfulness as a means to positively impact its users' mental health. The use of intersections in this design embodies therapy's goal of creating a welcoming space where people can safely explore and accept who they are as they travel their mental health journey. Mental health is an increasing problem, particularly for younger people whose social development was abruptly interrupted and adversely impacted by the pandemic. Those struggling with mental health are plagued by constant battles with their own thoughts of insecurities, fear, anxiety, and self-harm or harm to others. Embrace provides architectural spaces that support mental health and therapy by leveraging biophilic design and mindfulness. Existing mental health and behavioral clinics commonly misuse or ignore the potential for architecture to aid in therapy. These designs further alienate those struggling with mental health and do not encourage people to stay at the building beyond their initial appointment. This project takes advantage of the potential for architectural features to become active tools in therapy through biophilic design and mindfulness, which can make therapy sessions more effective and pleasant. Biophilic design implements physical nature or natural influences into architectural form, materiality, patterns, and features in order to optimize the mental health benefits of natural surroundings. Examples of effective biophilic design strategies include the use of natural materials, daylighting, and views to the exterior. Mindfulness is a common therapy technique used to treat a variety of mental health disorders by reducing anxiety and negative thoughts. This state of mind can be practiced in architecture by tracing shapes, describing, and counting elements. The location selected is in Blacksburg, Virginia, just outside of the Virginia Tech campus. This location offers a lot of potential for interactions with the surrounding environment because of an existing tree grove, its adjacency to the Huckleberry Trail, views toward the Blue Ridge Mountains and elevation changes in the topography. By embedding the two-story building in the landscape, this offers three main view options: views to the south of the tree trunks from the existing tree grove, views to the south of the tree tops, and views to the north of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In addition, the proximity to the Virginia Tech campus is essential because there has been an increase in the number of students and faculty requiring mental health support. The project's parti reinforces the importance of intersection through its overall form. The building is split up into two parallel forms pierced by a third form. The materiality in the parallel portions of the building are mainly natural materials, like heavy timber. The materiality in the third, intersecting piece is mainly structured materials, like concrete. The moments of overlap in the building join the two materialities to make beautiful gathering spaces for those struggling with mental health to meet others in similar situations and promote group therapy involvement. The individual therapy rooms are tailored to the needs of the therapists and include private bathrooms, controlled acoustics, and ample seating. The building provides multiple spaces dedicated to group therapy, community gathering, and reflection. Throughout the building are common spaces designed to architecturally support specific therapy types. These spaces optimize the site location, materiality and building form to create spaces that not only meet the physical needs of the selected therapy, but also create a unique quality and atmosphere. While this building plans for numerous types of tailor-made therapy spaces, this project focuses on the detailed development of three main therapy types: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy. The aspiration of this project is to create a building that is welcoming to the Virginia Tech community while simultaneously supporting mental health with thoughtful architecture. Although the most common reason for students to first arrive at Embrace is for a therapy appointment, the goal is that people will also see the opportunity the architecture provides for reflection, community, and support outside of their appointments times. Ultimately, the architecture gathers the mental health community. / Master of Architecture / This project embraces the intersection of biophilic design and mindfulness as a means to positively impact its users' mental health. The use of intersections in this design embodies therapy's goal of creating a welcoming space where people can safely explore and accept who they are as they travel their mental health journey. Mental health is an increasing problem, particularly for younger people whose social development was abruptly interrupted and adversely impacted by the pandemic. This project takes advantage of the potential for architectural features to become active tools in therapy through biophilic design and mindfulness, which can make therapy sessions more effective and pleasant. The location selected is in Blacksburg, Virginia, just outside of the Virginia Tech campus. This location offers a lot of potential for interactions with the surrounding environment because of an existing tree grove, its adjacency to the Huckleberry Trail, views toward the Blue Ridge Mountains and elevation changes in the topography. In addition, the proximity to the Virginia Tech campus is essential because there has been an increase in the number of students and faculty requiring mental health support. The project's parti reinforces the importance of intersection through its overall form. The building is split up into two parallel forms pierced by a third form. The materiality in the parallel portions of the building are mainly natural materials. The materiality in the third, intersecting piece is mainly structured materials. The moments of overlap in the building join the two materialities to make beautiful gathering spaces for those struggling with mental health. The individual therapy rooms are tailored to the needs of the therapists. Throughout the building are common spaces designed to architecturally support specific therapy types. These spaces optimize the site location, materiality and building form to create spaces that not only meet the physical needs of the selected therapy, but also create a unique quality and atmosphere. The aspiration of this project is to create a building that is welcoming to the Virginia Tech community while simultaneously supporting mental health with thoughtful architecture. Ultimately, the architecture gathers the mental health community.

Jornadas Académicas de Salud 2021. Ponente: Mg. Carlos Trujillo / Las Jornadas Académicas en Salud 2021 tienen como propósito promover la actualización de los profesionales de la salud de diversas especialidades, enfatizando la atención interprofesional centrada en el paciente.

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Conducting a musical rehearsal is an inherently relational activity, requiring a mixture of musical and personal skills. Research and writing on the role of intentional reflection for educators, and subsequently conductors, has demonstrated the important role of reflection as a catalyst for growth. While many models of reflection including video reflection, journaling, and reflective dialogue have helped conductors and music educators gain self-awareness and experience growth, these models do not provide resources to deeply reflect upon the specific role of personality within the rehearsal setting. The Enneagram of Personality, in the form of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) was used in this study as a tool for reflecting on personality within the choral rehearsal. Three conductors completed the RHETI online, engaged in reflective conversation about individual personality traits, then watched videos of two recent choral rehearsals, verbally reflecting on the role of specific personality traits within the rehearsals. This document presents these three reflective journeys as case studies, ultimately exploring the usefulness of a tool like the Enneagram as an aid to personal and musical growth for conductors. Chapter One presents an overview of the literature on reflective practice, especially as it applies to education (broadly) and music education (specifically). Chapter Two introduces the Enneagram of Personality, summarizing its structure and core descriptions, as well as psychometric reliability and validity studies of the RHETI. Chapter Three describes the procedures used in the cases and the process developed for analyzing and interpreting the data. Chapters Four, Five, and Six contain the three cases, detailing each conductor’s interaction with the Enneagram within the prescribed reflective practice. Chapter Seven offers a cross-case analysis of the three cases and examines their implications for further research and future use of the Enneagram in musical practice.

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Research has supported the efficaciousness of mindfulness-based interventions on depression and general psychological well-being (Teasdale et al., 2000). Thus, researchers are beginning to examine the specific mechanisms of mindfulness's salutary effects (Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006). As mindfulness has been increasingly linked to enhanced emotional awareness and emotion regulation (Nielsen & Kaszniak, 2006; Chambers Gullone, & Allen, 2009), the specific act of objectively labeling affective experience has been proposed as an emotion regulation mechanism of mindfulness. Research has linked emotion regulation pathways in the brain with experimental tasks of affect labeling in individuals with high trait mindfulness (Creswell, Way, Eisenberger, & Lieberman, 2007). The aim of this study was to examine affect labeling as an emotion regulation mechanism of mindfulness in the context of well-established cognitive models of depression. Specifically, the study investigated whether individuals asked to label facial stimuli with affective labels recovered from a negative mood more quickly, and with more emotional granularity, than those in a control condition. One hundred and forty-nine Temple University undergraduates completed measures of mood, emotion regulation, and cognitive style prior to a negative mood priming task and were randomly assigned to one of two labeling conditions: affect labeling or gender labeling (control). Emotion dysregulation proved to be an important predictor of affective response to the mood induction. Specifically, emotion dysregulation was positively associated with negative affect, and negatively associated with positive affect, preceding and following the mood induction. However, contrary to study hypotheses, HLM analyses indicated that speed and specificity of affective recovery did not differ across experimental condition; thus, affect labeling was not associated with more adaptive emotional regulation. In addition, cognitive styles and mindfulness failed to moderate the relationship between affect labeling and affective recovery in the expected direction. However, greater trait mindfulness was associated with less negative affective responses to the mood induction. Implications of study findings, strengths and limitations of the study, as well as future directions are discussed. / Psychology