The Benefits of Incorporating Mindfulness into a Human Services Curriculum
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Authors
Oropall, Donna
Sadamsetty, Adwaitha
Issue Date
2023-03-24
Type
Other
Language
en_US
Keywords
mindfulness-based interventions, compassion fatigue, stress reduction
Alternative Title
Abstract
Mindfulness training has played a key role in a Buddhist system designed to reduce Mental suffering. It is now integrated into western medicine and psychology based on research demonstrating the efficacy of several Mindfulness based Interventions programs. These programs help reduce stress and distress in healthy people, in several diagnosed patient groups and in clinicians (Hoffman et al., 2010). Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBI) are effective for improving many biopsychosocial conditions, including depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, addiction, psychosis, pain, hypertension, weight control, cancer related symptoms and prosocial behaviors, it is found to be beneficial in the healthcare settings, in schools and workplace (Richard, J.D., 2021 ). As the students in the Human Services are going to be serving people in the aforementioned settings, gaining knowledge of Mindfulness techniques in their undergraduate experience could only serve students and help them with their personal self-care, stress and compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is a condition characterized by emotional and physical exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others, often described as negative cost of caring. It is sometimes referred to as secondary traumatic stress.
Description
UB Rise 2023
Department of Human Services
College of Science and Society