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Mindful Coping

Tharaldsen, Kjersti Balle
Doctoral thesis
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2012-10-19
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Mindful Coping by Kjersti Balle Tharaldsen, Stavanger : University of Stavanger, 2012 (PhD thesis UiS, no. 174)  
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The main objective of this thesis was to investigate the relation between

mindfulness and coping. Building on a definition of mindfulness as a

way of being in the present moment, appraisal theory was linked to

coping with distress. The reason was to inquire whether mindfulness

may be related to a coping process that entails appraising and to

suggest how it is associated. “Mindful coping” is presented as a way to

link these two traditions. This aim was developed based on years of

working with both clinical and non-clinical populations who have

expressed interest in and benefitted from practicing mindfulness as a

door-opener to more adequate coping with general stress- and emotionrelated

life problems.

Beginning with a look into coping strategies that may play a central

role in mindful coping, these strategies were related to mental health

indicators to provide information on how mindful coping strategies

may affect mental health. Mindful coping strategies were then

investigated empirically within a non-clinical adolescent sample and a

sample of psychiatric outpatients. Two interventions believed to

enhance mindful coping were evaluated with the main goal of learning

more about how mindful coping skills may be developed, as well as

their capability to stimulate mindful coping and improve mental health.

Using a pragmatic approach within a critical realist framework, and by

mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, four studies contributed to

the current research. Findings showed that mindfulness may play a part

in coping (i.e., mindful coping). Strategies for promoting mindful

coping have been suggested. Furthermore, the results revealed that

mindful coping strategies do seem to affect mental health in different

ways for different populations. Within the adolescent sample,

tendencies reflected that some strategies were more beneficial than

others, whereas the strategies seem to affect symptoms of poor mental

health in promising ways within the patient sample.

In response to the findings, suggestions have been made to moderate

interventions that enhance mindful coping to increase the use of such

strategies and promote mental health. Finally, challenges in developing

and executing mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents and for

psychiatric outpatients have been suggested. The study provides

important knowledge on how mindfulness can be linked to coping

theories and how interventions integrating mindfulness practices and

coping skills may be carried out.
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PhD thesis in Health and Social Sciences
 
This thesis is based on the following papers:
 
PAPER 1: Tharaldsen, K. B. ; Bru, E. (2011): Validation of the mindful coping scale. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 16(1), 87-103. URL: http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewAbstract.do?articleID=156339744
 
PAPER 2: Tharaldsen, K. B. ; Bru, E. ; Wilhelmsen, I. (2011): Mindful coping and mental health among adolescents. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 13(2), 21-31.
 
PAPER 3: Tharaldsen, K. B.: Mindful Coping for Adolescents: Beneficial or Confusing? Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 5(2012)2, s. 105-124. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1754730X.2012.691814
 
PAPER 4: Tharaldsen, K. B., & Bru, E.: Evaluating the Mindfulness-Based Coping Program MBC: An Effectiveness Study with a Mixed Model Approach. Mental Illness 4(2012)1. URL: http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/mi/article/view/mi.2012.e11
 
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University of Stavanger, Norway
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PhD thesis UiS;174

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