TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mander, Johannes
A1  - Blanck, Paul
A1  - Neubauer, Andreas B.
A1  - Kröger, Paula
A1  - Flückiger, Christoph
A1  - Lutz, Wolfgang
A1  - Barnow, Sven
A1  - Bents, Hinrich
A1  - Heidenreich, Thomas
T1  - Mindfulness and progressive muscle relaxation as standardized session-introduction in individual therapy: a randomized controlled trial
T2  - Journal of clinical psychology
N2  - OBJECTIVE: There is scarce research on the effects of mindfulness in individual therapy. As many practitioners integrate mindfulness exercises into individual therapy, empirical evidence is of high clinical relevance.
METHOD: We investigated the effects of a session-introducing intervention with mindfulness elements (SIIME) in a randomized, controlled design. The effects of SIIME on therapeutic alliance and symptomatic outcome were compared with progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) and treatment-as-usual (TAU) control conditions. The sample comprised 162 patients with anxiety and depression.
RESULTS: Multilevel modeling revealed a significant symptom reduction and significant increase of alliance over the course of therapy. There were no significant time-condition interactions on outcome and alliance, indicating the comparable efficiency of all three treatment conditions.
CONCLUSIONS: We found no advantage of SIIME versus PMR and TAU. Add-on mindfulness might not improve individual therapy related to alliance and outcome.
KW  - component study
KW  - mindfulness
KW  - psychotherapy  process
KW  - randomized  controlled trial (RCT)
KW  - therapeutic alliance
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53126
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531262
N1  - This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 75
SP  - 21
EP  - 45
ER  -