"health care providers’ own mindfulness practice can positively impact the therapeutic alliance with patients, assist therapists in cultivating critical therapeutic skills such as unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding, and improve overall provision of a variety of therapeutic interventions.
It is thought that this positive treatment outcome is due to the development of the health care providers’ own attention and affect regulation, acceptance, and non-judging of patient experiences, comfort with facing difficult experiences, decreased reactivity to negative events, increased capability for empathic responding, increased metacognitive awareness, and overall improvement in the therapeutic alliance. These processes and therapist characteristics have been shown to be beneficial from an evidence-based perspective on psychotherapy.
Based on this idea, one could conclude that health care providers’ mindfulness may eventually relate to a stronger therapeutic alliance and even better treatment outcomes."
Escuriex BF, Labbé
EE. Health Care Providers’ Mindfulness and Treatment
Outcomes: A Critical Review of the Research Literature.
Mindfulness 2011; 2:242–253.
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