Lower Suicide Risk in College Students with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Zhongyong thinking still plays an important role in regulating mental distress and maintaining subjective well-being among contemporary Chinese young adults.” – Xeuling Yang Around 43,000 people take their own lives each year in the US. Someone dies from […]
Reduce the Risk of Suicide in Adolescents with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “results support DBT as the first well-established, empirically supported treatment for decreasing repeated suicide attempts and self-harm in youths.” — Christina Vogt Around 43,000 people take their own lives each year in the US. Someone dies from […]
Improve Bipolar Disorder with a Mindfulness-Based Therapy (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, DBT) By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The skills training and treatment model of DBT is applicable to people living with a range of mental health conditions. Practicing mindfulness helps people with and without mental health conditions to improve well-being, attention to the […]
Reduce Suicide with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness […]
Decrease Suicide Ideation with Skills Learned in Dialectical Behavior Therapy By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “DBT provided me with a rubric for figuring out what was causing my anxiety, anger or sadness, and new options for how to behave in light of it. Once a week, for the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve […]
Improve the Psychological Well-Being of Sexual Minorities (LBGQ) with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.” —Laverne Cox Around 43,000 people take their own lives each year in […]
Improve Borderline Personality Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “DBT . . . is considered one of the best treatments for [Borderline Personality Disorder] in terms of documented success rates. . . [Borderline Personality Disorder] is effective in reducing psychiatric hospitalization, substance use, and suicidal behavior. . . self-injurious behaviors, and […]
Reduce Self-Harm and Suicidality in Adolescents with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “growing evidence supports DBT-A as a likely viable treatment intervention for adolescents who self-harm.” – Kimberly R. Freeman Around 43,000 people take their own lives each year in the US. The problem is far worse than these statistics […]
Effectively Treat Substance Use Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness is likely an effective tool in helping people with addiction because it’s a single, simple skill that a person can practice multiple times throughout their day, every day, regardless of the life challenges that arise.” – James Davis […]
Reduce Self-Harm in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Dialectical Behavior Therapy group skills training was associated with a reduction in non-suicidal self-injury in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.” – Gary Rothbard Self-injury is a disturbing phenomenon occurring worldwide, especially in developed countries, such as the U.S. […]