Editors:
- Examines mindfulness theory and practice in broad historical and cultural contexts
- Explores manifestations of mindfulness across health care, education, neuroscience, and business
- Addresses influences of cultural assumptions, institutional structures, economic systems, and political forces
- Presents a transdisciplinary perspective across such fields as educational counseling, social psychology, management and business
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health (MIBH)
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Genealogies of Mindfulness-Based Interventions
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Mindfulness as Critical Pedagogy
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Featured topics include:
- A compilation of Buddhist meditativepractices.
- Selling mindfulness and the marketing of mindful products.
- A meta-critique of mindfulness critiques - from McMindfulness to critical mindfulness
- Mindfulness-based interventions in clinical psychology and neuroscience.
- Corporate mindfulness and usage in the workplace.
- Community-engaged mindfulness and its role in social justice.
The Handbook of Mindfulness is a must-have resource for clinical psychologists, complementary and alternative medicine professionals/practitioners, neuroscientists, and educational and business/management leaders and policymakers as well as related mental health, medical, and educational professionals/practitioners.
Keywords
- Buddhism mindfulness
- Buddhist meditative practices
- Capitalism and mindfulness
- Clinical mindfulness
- Compassion in corporations
- Contemplative neuroscience and culture
- Corporate mindfulness
- Critical Buddhism
- Ethics and mindfulness
- Mindfulness and education
- Mindfulness and trauma
- Mindfulness education
- Mindfulness in a corporate context
- Mindfulness in schools
- Psychotherapy and mindfulness
- Secular mindfulness
- Social justice and teaching mindfulness
- Wisdom traditions
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Management, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Ronald E. Purser
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Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn, USA
David Forbes
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Institute for Holistic Health Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Adam Burke
About the editors
David Forbes, Ph.D., (U.C. Berkeley), LMHC, is Associate Professor in the School Counseling program in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY and affiliate faculty in the Urban Education doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was a co-recipient of a program grant from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and wrote Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (Peter Lang, 2004) about counseling and teaching mindfulness meditation to a Brooklyn high school football team. Forbes teaches critical and integral approaches to mindfulness. He writes on the social and cultural context of mindfulness in education and wrote “Occupy Mindfulness” and "Search Outside Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in Wisdom 101” with Ron Purser. He consults with schools in New York on developing integral mindfulness programs and practices meditation with a group from the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Adam Burke, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a Professor in Health Education and Director of the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds advanced degrees in the social/behavioral sciences from UCLA and UC Santa Cruz, and is a licensed acupuncturist, trained in San Francisco and Sichuan, China. Meditation training and practice commenced in the 1970’s and continues across diverse traditions. Research and publication interests focus on student achievement and education equity, meditation and imagery, and cross-cultural studies of traditional health practices. Recent published works include Learning Life (Rainor Media, 2016). He has served on the American Public Health Association’s Governing Council, as chair of the California Acupuncture Board, editor-in-chief of the American Acupuncturist, and as an Advisory Council member of the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Mindfulness
Book Subtitle: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement
Editors: Ronald E. Purser, David Forbes, Adam Burke
Series Title: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44017-0Published: 04 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68918-0Published: 20 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44019-4Published: 25 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-9579
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 514
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Neurosciences, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Business Strategy/Leadership
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Health & Hospitals