Mindfulness i primärvården: Kuratorers inställningar och erfarenheter
(2024) SAHS05 20241School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to understand healthcare counselors' experiences with and attitudes toward working with mindfulness in primary care. Counselors who currently or previously worked with mindfulness shared their perspectives through semi-structured individual interviews. The study reached several main conclusions. Counselors applied mindfulness to a wider range of target groups than suggested by National policy guidelines. However, mindfulness was not viewed as a universal solution but required careful assessment, adaptation, and ensuring patients’ receptiveness. While some counselors believed that mindfulness was not suitable for work-related problems, one counselor noted its effectiveness in empowering patients to establish... (More)
- The purpose of this study was to understand healthcare counselors' experiences with and attitudes toward working with mindfulness in primary care. Counselors who currently or previously worked with mindfulness shared their perspectives through semi-structured individual interviews. The study reached several main conclusions. Counselors applied mindfulness to a wider range of target groups than suggested by National policy guidelines. However, mindfulness was not viewed as a universal solution but required careful assessment, adaptation, and ensuring patients’ receptiveness. While some counselors believed that mindfulness was not suitable for work-related problems, one counselor noted its effectiveness in empowering patients to establish boundaries in the workplace. Counselors unanimously agreed that patients who were considered to have high levels of anxiety and experiential avoidant tendencies faced the greatest challenges in using mindfulness, yet were paradoxically considered to need it the most. The counselors believed that mindfulness supports being present with one’s experiences rather than avoiding them and therefore serves as a way to self-regulate and emotionally regulate. By applying Lazarus and Folkman’s coping theory, mindfulness can also be considered as emotion-focused coping. Counselors emphasized that mindfulness should stretch beyond counseling contact to maintain positive changes. It can therefore be considered as the counselors viewing mindfulness as a self-care practice. (Less)
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- author
- Svensson, Lina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SAHS05 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
- subject
- keywords
- mindfulness, primary care, healthcare counselors, emotion regulation, coping
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9162149
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- 2024-06-30 16:55:26
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title = {{Mindfulness i primärvården: Kuratorers inställningar och erfarenheter}},
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