anxiety and stress reduction.”As a brief intervention, mindful therapy could be widely disseminated and is an innovative new mind-body therapy, he said.Elkins noted that while mindfulness by itself can be an effective treatment for stress and anxiety for some people, it typically is provided in eight weekly sessions that last two hours or more each week and include an all-day retreat of eight or more hours.That amount of time — more than 24 therapy hours — may be a burden in cost and time for some patients.
Further, research has not shown that mindfulness-based treatments are consistently better than standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), he said.For the new study, the Baylor research team evaluated 42 individuals who had reported.
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