Promoting Attachment-Related Mindfulness and Compassion: a Wait-List-Controlled Study of Women Who Were Mistreated During Childhood

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 624-636

  Caldwell, Jon G ^a   Shaver, Phillip R ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry The Meadows ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult attachment; Compassion; Emotion regulation; Emotion suppression; Emotional clarity; Mindfulness; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929147210     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0298-y     Document Type: Article

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