12 articles in this issue
Anne Maj Nielsen, Klaus Bærentsen
De senere år har der været en kraftig stigning i praksisformer, der har fokus på bevidsthed og opmærksomhed og på deres regulering. Mængden af kursusaktiviteter i yoga, meditation, mindfulness og lignende aktiviteter er stadig stigende, ligesom anvendelse... see more
Ingeborg Farver-Vestergaard, Maja Johannsen, Eva Rames Nissen, Maja O'Connor
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was originally developed to prevent recurrent depression, but may also be of relevance for patient groups in the field of health psychology. The present paper gives a descriptive overview of clinical trials condu... see more
Jacob Piet
Mindfulness-based clinical interventions have become popular and broadly implemented within several university clinics and hospitals. The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is supported by ... see more
Christian Gaden Jensen, Louise Victoria Alliverti Holde
Meditation is increasingly applied in health promotion and clinical interventions although the influence of meditation during multimodal interventions is unclear. Even among meditation-based interventions (MBI), theories and recommendations concerning med... see more
Marie Kolmos
This article deals with how contemplative activities in a public school setting and a Waldorf school setting emerge in a phenomenological inspired life-world perspective. It starts with a short introduction to ‘contemplative activities’ and how they can b... see more
Jørgen Svenstrup
Stress is an increasing problem in Denmark with more than 12% of the population suffering from stress on a regular basis, and the interventions used to reduce stress are still a mix of remove-from-stressors strategies and coping strategies, whereas resear... see more
Linda Stub Korsgaard Jacobsen, Signe Steenberger, Tea Trillingsgaard
A substantial amount of knowledge has recently been generated on the potential of psychological practices such as mindfulness, that cultivates the individual’s capacity to become more consciously aware of the mind’s present experiences. Yet, we know less ... see more
Marlene Skovgaard Lyby, Mimi Yung Mehlsen
It is a methodological challenge to describe change processes within psychology, as change is often characterized by both loss and growth in function. Especially compensatory processes may be impossible to describe by conventional methods. These methods t... see more
Mikkel Bøhm, Peter Hagedorn-Rasmussen, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
The application of a relatively simple technology in the form of a helmet-camera may support changes in awareness during and after an operative incidence. The helmet-camera is attached to the superior incident commander from the fire department. By way of... see more
Martin Moesmann, Ditte Hvad Mortensen
There is a growing demand for tools and methods that provide a setting for the cultivation of conscious focus and immersion. With the intent to accommodate this need, the technology of biofeedback is presented, which has a documented long time effect on t... see more
Thomas Gitz-Johansen
The article discusses symbolization as a specific psychological method informed by psychodynamic theory. The point of departure is taken in a critique of modern society as disenchanted in the sense that a one-sided appreciation of reason has displaced and... see more
Anne Görlich
An increasing number of young people under the age of 30 are neither in education nor in employment. Politically, as well as in the academic world, there is an interest in finding out ‘what works’ in order to help the young. However, there is also a lack ... see more