The Mental Wellbeing College

Mindfulness-Based Treatments & Compassion | Dr. Bassam Khoury | 22


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Associate Professor Bassam Khoury on Mindfulness-Based Interventions for treating mental illnesses, daily practices to improve your mindfulness and wellbeing, living a life of compassion to others and self-compassion, and much more...

Dr. Bassam Khoury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, heads the McGill Mindfulness Research Lab and has researched and published prolifically in the field of mindfulness for several decades.
0:00 Show Intro
2:55 What is Mindfulness?
6:15 What are Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs)?
11:00 MBIs in Cancer treatment
13:05 MBIs in the treatment of Mental Illness
16:25 MBIs vs. CBT
30:30 MBIs in Suicidal Ideation
38:25 Is mindfulness a pseudoscience?
43:55 Strategies to improve mindfulness
53:45 What is compassion and self-compassion?
1:01:30 Perfectionism and Self-compassion
1:09:40 Strategies to improve compassion
1:15:35 Living a life of compassion
Further resources mentioned in this episode:
'Mindfulness-based therapy: a comprehensive meta-analysis' by Khoury et. al. (2013)
'The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Suicide Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis' by Schmelefske et. al. (2022)
Self-Compassion Scales by Kristin Neff
https://self-compassion.org/self-comp...
The Science and Practice of Mindfulness with Dr. Simon Goldberg (The Mental Wellbeing Show Podcast episode)    • The Science and P...  
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