A5017016462- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Music Therapy and Health
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Media Influence and Health
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
University of California, San Francisco
2015-2025
University of California, Berkeley
2008-2022
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
2021
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
2021
BackgroundPsilocybin therapy has shown promise as a rapid-acting treatment for depression, anxiety, and demoralization in patients with serious medical illness (e.g., cancer) when paired individual psychotherapy. This study assessed the safety feasibility of psilocybin-assisted group older long-term AIDS survivor (OLTAS) men, population high degree traumatic loss.MethodsSelf-identified gay men OLTAS moderate-to-severe (Demoralization Scale-II ≥8) were recruited from community major US city...
Empathy is a multifaceted skill and asset for health care providers. This paper uses current neuroscience literature of empathy to generate nuanced theory how can be blocked by personal stress aversion among professionals. Current training approaches educating sustainable are reviewed in depth. The final part the provides suggestions on spread education farther wider across medical education.
The primary objective of this qualitative study was to explore the therapeutic trajectories individuals undergoing psilocybin-assisted group therapy. This interpretive phenomenological analysis focused on an enriched sample gay-identified cisgender men ( n = 9) with human immunodeficiency virus diagnosed before 1996 and clinically significant trauma symptoms. Microphenomenological interviews were carried out 1 day after participants’ individual psilocybin sessions elicit fine-grained...
For human service care providers working in hospitals, balancing the motivation for interpersonal engagement with patients alongside self-protective emotional boundaries is a familiar struggle. Empathy critical, although not thoroughly understood, aspect of patient as well an important ingredient feeling work satisfaction and meaning. However, empathy can lead to feelings sympathetic distress even burnout. This article uses illustrative case study from medical social worker emergency room...
Background: The sustainability of ecosystems and human flourishing depends on the well-being younger generations who are most at risk. Increasing youth climate distress is an important public mental health issue. Training in resilience skills advocacy may reduce be accomplished educational settings, we aimed to test efficacy such training a university setting. Methods: We developed implemented 10-week (CR) course for students eight campuses that included lectures by experts varying aspects...
Social workers in Emergency Departments (ED) provide counseling, community resource linkage, and discharge planning. The ED is a critical intervention point for patients with multiple unmet medical, psychological, social needs, little or no other contact service providers. In part because of its role as medical safety net underserved populations, use the has steadily increased over time. There limited research examining utility services ED. This article provides brief history hospital work...
Purpose A metastatic cancer diagnosis is associated with high levels of distress in patients and caregivers, which may be alleviated by mindfulness interventions. Research on scalable, tailored, online training programs needed. We sought to test the feasibility acceptability a remotely delivered 8-week mindfulness-based intervention, Being Present 2.0 (BP2.0). Methods performed single-arm study BP2.0 among any gastrointestinal receiving chemotherapy, or without an informal caregiver....
Abstract The authors describe an instructional model designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among students pursuing master's degrees in social work and journalism. This unique involved active journalism graduate faculty create a single-issue magazine focused on diverse range of welfare issues. After describing the development format as well requisite resources, discuss emergent learning opportunities for both groups students, including identification role tensions between 2...
Human flourishing is a long sought-after aspiration historically considered and espoused through religious, philosophical, creative avenues. Only recently has western science began to investigate the meaning, underlying foundations of, effective strategies for promoting in life.Here, we present framework teaching practice of human grounded connection, positivity, resilience (CPR) based on synthesis theoretical frameworks observations input from global sample learners enrolled an online...
Objectives: To investigate outcomes and predictors of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation process called Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) vs. waitlist (WL) control group practitioners with moderate depression, anxiety, stress symptoms. Methods: 61 meditators (70% female; mean age = 44.05, SD 11.20; 43.5% White, 39% Asian, 9.3% Hispanic, 8.3% other) were randomly assigned to 1-month FYD practice or WL groups. Participants completed self-report assessments at baseline post-FYD/WL. Results:...
Contemplative science has made great strides in the empirical investigation of meditation practices, such as how mindfulness, compassion, and mantra practices impact health well-being. However, from Vajrayana Buddhist tradition that use mental imagery to transform distressing beliefs emotions have been little explored. We examined “Feeding Your Demons” meditation, a secular adaptation traditional Tibetan practice Chöd (“Severance”) pilot, randomized controlled trial which 61 community adults...
Introduction Considering the relevance of emotional state, it is necessary to understand how daily stimuli can modulate emotions. Animated short films are common stimuli, but unknown they state. The study aimed evaluate: participants’ state changed after watching animated with positive or negative valence in an online experiment; relationship between baseline score on Emotional Intensity Scale and their potential change main emotion films; association initial this sociodemographic...
Subprime mortgages and related financial fraud triggered the United States economy's meltdown Great Recession of 2007. In this interview, Eve Ekman engages Shawna Reeves, a social worker who is carving out career in protecting elders from deceptive mortgage deals other personal finance scams. Reeves describes her own professional path, connects direct practice policies for reform, encourages young workers to take up challenging field that at once as new recent deregulation industry venerable...