Role of mindfulness in reducing challenging behaviour.
This article describes part of the evaluation of the mindfulness programme, which has been run collaboratively by nurses, psychology staff and patients for more than three years on the women's wards of a forensic learning disability service. It outlines what mindfulness is, how it is delivered and t...
| Published in: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 16; no. 10; pp. 33 - 38 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
Dec2013
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | This article describes part of the evaluation of the mindfulness programme, which has been run collaboratively by nurses, psychology staff and patients for more than three years on the women's wards of a forensic learning disability service. It outlines what mindfulness is, how it is delivered and the views of the nursing team on some of the strengths, challenges and benefits of using this approach with patients in their care. |
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