Buddhist inspired resources for physicians and other health care professionals.
Posted in Addiction Medicine, Mindfulness in Medicine on Feb 24th, 2009
Mindfulness Meditation is becoming widely popular as an adjunct to conventional medical and psychological therapies.
This site is designed to assist people who are interested in the integration of psychotherapy and medical therapies, for their own well being , for the purpose of enhancing the therapeutic relationship or to improve the quality of clinical interventions.
Posted in Addiction Medicine, Mindfulness in Medicine on Feb 24th, 2009
April 2-4, 2009, La Jolla, CA: Buddhism & Psychology, featuring Jack Kornfeld, Tara Brach, Marsha Linehan, Alan Marlatt, Stephen Hayes and Rick Hanson.
Mindfulness Skills & Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP)
The Self-Transforming Brain
Fully Living with Chronic Pain: A Mindfulness Based Approach
Transformative Principles of Buddhist Psychology
Practices & Applications of Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
Awakening the Good [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine on Feb 24th, 2009
The Buddhist Recovery Network supports the use of Buddhist teachings, traditions and practices to help people recover from the suffering caused by addictive behaviors. Open to people of all backgrounds, and respectful of all recovery paths, the organization promotes mindfulness and meditation, and is grounded in Buddhist principles of non-harming, compassion and interdependence. It seeks [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine, Mindfulness in Medicine on Feb 12th, 2009
Wed., Feb. 18, 2009, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM; Seattle Washington, University of Washington campus
Kane Hall 120. Open to the public. Admission is FREE, but space is limited and advance registration is requested. https://go.washington.edu/uwaa/events/2009psych_lectures/details.tcl You can also register by calling the UW Alumni Association at 206-543-0540.
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Addiction is one of the nation’s major health problems, as [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine, Prison Outreach on Sep 26th, 2008
Article appearing in American Jails Magazine, July/August 2003
Final outcome results from the recidivism study (Murphy, 2002) revealed that approximately half
(56%) of the inmates completing a Vipassana course at NRF recidivated as measured by returning to King
County Jail (KCJ) custody within two years, compared with a 75% rate of recidivism in a NRF General
Population Study (Murphy, [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 22nd, 2008
AIDS Educ Prev. 2006 Aug;18(4):311-22
Margolin A, Beitel M, Schuman-Olivier Z, Avants SK.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. arthur.margolin@yale.edu
Spiritual Self-Schema (3-S) therapy is a manual-guided intervention for increasing motivation for HIV prevention that integrates a cognitive model of self within a Buddhist framework suitable for people of all faiths. In this controlled [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 22nd, 2008
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2007 Jan;77(1):1-9.
Beitel M, Genova M, Schuman-Olivier Z, Arnold R, Avants SK, Margolin A.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
A manual-guided, spirituality-focused intervention–spiritual self-schema (3-S) therapy–for the treatment of addiction and HIV-risk behavior was developed as part of a Stage I behavioral therapies development project. It is theoretically grounded in [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 22nd, 2008
Subst Use Misuse. 1997 Mar;32(4):435-59; Barrett ME.
Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore. swkmb@nus.sg
Since 1959 Wat Thamkrabok, a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, has been conducting a drug addiction rehabilitation program which claims a 70% success rate. The program is known for its use of unconventional methods, such as inducing [...]
Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 18th, 2008
Thamkrabok Foundation [AU] - established in 1996 to create ties with the Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand, famous throughout the world for its radical but effective treatment of drug addiction.