Research
Mindfulness-integrated
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Australia
PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE, TASMANIA
(Clinical work)
Ongoing MiCBT outcome data are being collected by Bruno Cayoun and colleagues in 
Tasmania. MiCBT is being implemented successfully in crisis situations and is not restricted to relapse prevention, across a broad range of psychopathologies in various outpatient settings.
MiCBT group Program for People with a
Gambling Addiction
Relationships Australia, Tasmania (Clinical research)
Bruno Cayoun is conducting an 8-week MiCBT group program for people with a gambling addiction at Relationships Australia, Tasmania, in February 2006. Outcome data are being collected.
People interested in this research can contact Bruno Cayoun (mobile: 0422 685 008, Practice: (03) 6223 1138)
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy:
Piloting a new program for psychology interns
Psychology Clinic, University of New South Wales, Australia(Pilot study)
Alice Shires (Clinic Director) and Bruno Cayoun are preparing an MCBT (MiCBT) training program for clinical psychology students undertaking their internship at the University 
Psychology Clinic of the University of NSW and for their supervisors. This is the first MCBT (MiCBT) training program formally provided by an Australian university to its clinical psychology students. The pilot program will provide data from student and their supervisors regarding their relationship with clients, the results they obtain in therapy, and their own wellbeing as clinicians dealing with daily stressors. Staff from other universities interested in more information about this initiative or needing support with the inclusion of MiCBT in their own service can contact us.
Principal Researcher: Alice Shires
Training Provider: Bruno Cayoun
MiCBT for Children
Psychology Centre, Tasmania (Clinical research)
Bruno Cayoun at the Psychology Centre (Tasmania) has recently implemented a 10-week MCBT (MiCBT) treatment model for children (an adaptation of the 8-week MiCBT program for adults) with a 10 year-old girl with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD). This will serve to pilot the model for children with normal to higher intellectual ability. A paper will be written as a case study and presented at the 2006 Conference of the APS and NZPsS in Auckland, New Zealand. It may provide a valuable method to assist in the treatment of GAD in children.
Parents interested in this research can contact Bruno Cayoun (mobile: 0422 685 008, Practice: (03) 6223 1138).
MiCBT for Children with Behaviour Problems
Psychology Centre, Tasmania(Clinical research)
Peter Langsford and Bruno Cayoun at the Psychology Centre (Tasmania) are currently implementing an MiCBT treatment model for children with behaviour problems, including those diagnosed with ADHD. This research may provide a valuable behavioural method to assist in the treatment of ADHD.
Parents interested in this research can contact Bruno Cayoun (mobile: 0422 685 008, Practice: (03) 6223 1138).
The Effects of Mindfulness-integrated CBT (MiCBT) in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Psychology Centre & University of Tasmania
(Clinical research)
Bruno Cayoun and Stephen Joseph are about to start an 8-week MiCBT group for high
school children with ADHD. This is a randomised control trial of the new MiCBT protocol for children (Langsford & Cayoun, 2005) for children with ADHD. Objective measures of motor coordination (MABC and dynamic circling tasks) and inhibitory control (Stop-reengagement tasks) will be assessed in the Human Motor Control Laboratory of the University of Tasmania in each child, including controls.
Clinicians and researchers interested in the research can contact the principal researcher.
A Randomised Controlled Trial of Mindfulness
for Bulimia Nervosa
Griffith University (PhD project)
Researchers: Michelle Hanisch and Angela Morgan
The current study aims first to establish relationships between emotion regulation, 
impulsivity and mindfulness. Three hundred first year university participants will complete a self-report assessment package including measures of eating disordered behaviour, substance use, emotion dysregulation, impulsivity as a personality trait from various theoretical perspectives, and mindfulness.
Additionally, the impact of an 8-week mindfulness skills training program for individuals with bulimia nervosa will be evaluated. The outcomes to be assessed include participants’ impulsivity, emotion regulation, mindfulness and bulimic behaviours.
The aim of the current research is also to demonstrate the efficacy of a mindfulness intervention, and investigate the mechanisms of change: whether mindfulness alone results in increased levels of mindfulness, and whether increased mindfulness contributes to - and precedes - symptom change.
The Treatment of Resistant Command
Hallucinations (TORCH) Trial
(Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria)
Principal Investigator: Professor David Copolov 
TORCH (Treatment of Resistant Command Hallucinations) is a psychological intervention for medication-resistant command hallucinations that aims to reduce compliance and distress through fostering acceptance of, and disengagement from, CHs.
- a graded practice of mindfulness underpinned by principles and techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy, and
- modifying beliefs related to the power and importance of CHs and beliefs about self that are activated by the CHs.
The efficacy of TORCH is being evaluated by comparison with a control condition, Befriending. Both treatments were 15 sessions long and delivered by psychologists who received specialist training and regular supervision. Participants continued to receive routine care throughout the trial. Assessments were conducted by blind raters at baseline, at the completion of treatment and at 6-month follow-up.
The trial is in its final stage of data analysis and write-up. Definitive results should be available in the next couple of months.
For further information, contact the Project Manager, Fran Shawyer
Israel
Equanimity in Vipassana Meditation: Developing an Equanimity Inventory
Bar Ilan University (Clinical PhD project)
Candidate: Eyal Brenner Directed by: Prof. Mario Mikulincer
This project aims to construct a scale of equanimity (awareness and acceptance of internal states), as developed through mindfulness meditation (as taught by S.N. Goenka).
New Zealand
MCBT and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
University of Auckland, New Zealand (MSc project)
Principal Researcher: Melanie Lindsay
Supervised by: Assoc. Profs Roger Booth and Linda Cameron, and Bruno Cayoun.
The MCBT (MiCBT) program is expected to be useful in supporting people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This pilot study will investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, self-compassion, and the self-regulation of health behaviours and blood glucose (HbA1c) levels. For further information please contact Melanie Lindsay
A Conceptual Basis for the Refinement of an
Operational Definition of Mindfulness
Massey University, New Zealand (MCouns project)
Researcher: Brendan Sillifant
This research project investigated the way mindfulness processes are understood and applied within psychology. This qualitative study analyzed similarities and differences in the conceptualisation and use of mindfulness that are relevant for operationally defining mindfulness. Defining mindfulness is necessary to establish theoretical coherence and compatibility so that components, mechanisms, and outcomes of mindfulness may be studied independent of specific approaches.
Researchers, trainers, and therapists from major mindfulness-based approaches were interviewed on issues of theoretical note. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was employed in the analysis of the material. Interview material highlighted both significant similarity and difference between approaches. Taken together, these conceptual accounts and technologies provided a more comprehensive description of mindfulness. The report outlined various technologies employed, psychological processes involved, therapeutic mechanisms considered to be at work, and how these different conceptualisations may be integrated.
For further information please contact Brendan Sillifant
UK
A New Treatment for Depression: Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
John Teasdale's page from the Emotion Research Group website, a site operating from the Cognition and Brain Science Unit at Cambridge University. 
United States
The Relationship between Social Cognition and Mindfulness Meditation
University of Massachusetts,Amherst, Massachusetts (Social research)
Linda Isbell and Matthew Hunsinger are in the process of conducting research on the relationship between social cognition and mindfulness meditation. We are examining the influence of mindfulness practice on stereotyping. This research will provide information on the relationship between affect and stereotyping. If you have any questions, please contact Matthew Hunsinger or Linda Isbell.