Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health

Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health

Question description The structure should include the following All work must comply with APA written standards:

1-Title page (1)

2-Abstract (1), The abstract must have at least i paragraph with no less than 6 lines.

3-Content pages (5),

4-Conclusion (1), Should be your own analysis of your findings.

5-References (1).

Research Paper Project Suggestions for General Psychology and Human Growth Class.

These are some of the aspects you may utilize as a guide:

• Why the name of the disorder / concept or definition.
• Criteria to be followed in order to be diagnosed with this specific disorder according to the DSM-5 Edition.
• History
• Causes
• Symptoms
• Different types
• Preventions
• Treatment plans for short-term goals and long-term goals
• Tips or suggestions on how to overcome the disorder
• Parenting skills to help the individuals

Evidence-based therapies for specific disorder.

In order to facilitate what to include in your literature report, you MUST mention the following:

a) When and how that concept was developed or coined.

b) Under what philosophical roots it falls

c) Best exponents of that idea

d) Controversial issues about it

e) Advantages or disadvantages of it

f) New findings

g) The future of it.

h) MOST IMPORTANT AT THE END IN THE SUMMARY/CONCLUSION YOUR PERSONAL OPINION AND POSITION ABOUT IT.

In addition, it must be typed using APA style, and Times New Roman, and font 12.

Mindfulness-based interventions and hypnosis are efficacious treatments for addressing a large number of psychological and physical conditions, including chronic pain. However, there continues to be debate surrounding the relative uniqueness of the theorized

mechanisms of these treatments – reflected by measures of mindfulness facets and hypnotizability – with some concern that there may be so much overlap as to make the mechanism constructs (and therefore the respective interventions) redundant. Given these considerations, the primary aim of the current study was to examine the degree of unique versus shared variance between two common measures of mindfulness facets and hypnotizability: the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale (SHCS). A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of N=154 Veterans with heterogeneous chronic pain conditions. Bivariate Pearson correlations were used to examine the associations between the target scales. Results showed that the correlations between the FFMQ scales and SHCS total score were uniformly weak, although significant negative correlations were found between mindfulness facets of observe and non-react with hypnotizability (ps < .05). Thus, not only are the mindfulness and hypnotizability constructs unique, but when significantly associated, hypnotic suggestibility corresponds with a tendency to be less mindful. These findings have important implications for future research aimed towards matching patients to the treatment most likely to be of benefit, and suggest that matching patients on the basis of these theoretically derived “unique” moderators may hold potential.

Keywords: mindfulness, hypnotizability, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Stanford Hypnosis Clinical Scale
Historically, the origin of mindfulness meditation can be traced back thousands of years to many Eastern religions, as well as to a variety of other philosophical and psychological traditions including ancient Greek philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, and naturalism (Brown, Ryan, & Creswell, 2007). Similarly, the origin of hypnosis also extends back thousands of years to the ancient temples of Aesculapius (Alladin, 2008), with modern day hypnosis (originally known as Mesmerism) traced back to the late 1700s when it was made popular by Franz Mesmer (Alladin, 2008). Only more recently, however, was mindfulness meditation introduced into the western allopathic medical community (Kabat-Zinn, 1990; Wilson, 2014). Likewise, the use of hypnosis in the medical field did not become popular until 1843, when James Braid began to document the biological and physical benefits of hypnotic interventions (Alladin, 2008). Over the past two decades, research has shown that both mindfulness-based interventions and hypnosis are effective treatments for addressing a large number of psychological and physical symptoms and conditions, including chronic pain (Fjorback, Arendt, Ornbøl, Fink, & Walach, 2011; Jensen, & Patterson, 2006; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, & Burney, 1985; Morone, Greco, & Weiner, 2008; Patterson, & Jenson, 2003).

Despite the seemingly unique historical and theoretical roots of mindfulness meditation and hypnosis, there appears an overlap between interventions based on these two approaches, both empirically and conceptually. First, the two treatments are used to address similar conditions (e.g., pain, stress, anxiety, and depression) (Goldin, 2012; Goldin & Gross, 2010; Holroyd, 2003; Jensen & Patterson, 2006; Lifshitz & Raz; 2012; Lynn, Barnes, Deming, & Accardi, 2010). Second, although to our knowledge there have not yet been any head-to-head comparisons in efficacy between treatments based on these approaches in the same sample, the beneficial effects of the two approaches appear to be similar (Garland et al., 2017; Tan et al., 2007). Third, mindfulness-based interventions and hypnosis are often lumped together as “relaxation techniques.”

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Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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