Mihael Cernetic

• Ph.D. in Psychology, Certified Integrative Psychotherapist (IIPA)
• Sigmund Freud University Ljubljana

Background. Research shows that the mindfulness of psychotherapists and psychotherapy trainees has important implications for their psychological well-being and psychotherapeutic work. It is therefore beneficial to cultivate mindfulness in psychotherapy trainees. However, little is known about the process of mindfulness development in psychotherapy...

Mindfulness is one of today’s buzzwords. Not without reason, I would say. Research in psychology and psychotherapy has shown mindfulness to be related to numerous positive outcomes. However, mindfulness has received a mixed reception within Christianity due to fears that it might be inconsistent with Christian beliefs. This situation is potentially...

Professional and ethical reasons impose on psychotherapists the obligation to properly regulate (both during their professional training, as well as later on) the elements of their personal functioning which could potentially harm the psychotherapy process or clients. These include emotional-motivational impulses that were exhaustively dealt with,...

Z naraščanjem popularnosti čuječnosti v slovenskem prostoru se množijo tudi primeri netočne uporabe izrazov za to sicer zelo koristno duševno zmožnost. Pogosta napaka je govorjenje, da je nekdo čuječ, ko v resnici mislimo, da je čuječen. Zato je namen tega kratkega prispevka osvetliti pridevniško dilemo čuječ-čuječen (oz. vzporedno dilemo čuječe-ču...

Čuječnost (nepresojajoče, sprejemajoče zavedanje doživljanja v sedanjem trenutku) je tudi v poslovnem in delovnem okolju čedalje bolj uveljavljen psihološki pristop, ki se ga poslužuje vse več organizacij tako v tujini kot pri nas. Na ravni posameznika, organizacije kakor tudi širše družbe lahko prinese čuječnost številne pozitivne učinke. Denimo z...

The modern psychological concept of mindfulness does not have parallels only in Buddhism, but also in various other spiritual traditions. Since the capacity for mindfulness as a specific way of focusing attention is one of the innate human mental abilities, it can be assumed that many cultures in different places of the world and in different perio...

Because of the harmful effects of stress on individuals and organizations, successful regulation of employees' work-related stress is nowadays of great importance. Mindfulness (nonjudgmental, accepting awareness of one's own experience in the present moment) has proven to be an effective tool for coping with stress. Unfortunately, classical mindful...

Mindfulness experienced a strong upswing in the last two decades in psychology and related disciplines, but relatively little research focused on the structure of the construct. The aim of this article is to present, compare, and critically examine different types of models of the mindfulness construct. Unidimensional models conceptualize mindfulne...

Raziskovalno vprašanje: Kakšne so morebitne spremembe na področju čuječnosti in psihičnega blagostanja pri študentih sistemske psihoterapije tekom enoletnega programa za razvijanje čuječnosti v vsakdanjem življenju? Rezultati in ugotovitve: Tekom programa sta se pri udeležencih precej povečali potezna splošna čuječnost (MAAS) ter čuječnostna facet...

Although mindfulness interventions are increasingly used for coping with excessive anxiety, the relationship between mindfulness and anxiety is not yet clear. The study focused on this relationship. On a sample drawn from the general population, three mindfulness questionnaires were utilized. Anxiety was assessed by means of two self-report instrum...

While the effects and correlates of mindfulness are relatively well studied, much less is known about the mechanisms of mindfulness. A comprehensive model of how mindfulness works is presented in this article, with the model encompassing five mechanisms: (a) attenuation of responding automaticity, (b) increased objectivity towards experience, (c) w...

In the article, wefirstly defined the connection between goals in life and will to meaning that logotherapy defines as man s basic motive. An individual who cannot give meaning to his life, experiences emptiness, boredom and uninterestedness. We included the first, second and third year students of the Faculty of health sciences in Novo mesto. We u...

The article explores the relationship between Integrative Psychotherapy and mindfulness on a theoretical as well as practical level. Although mindfulness is not an explicit constituent of Integrative Psychotherapy, the two are arguably a natural fit. Mindfulness has the potential to enhance internal and external contact, a central concept in Integr...

Mindfulness – an individual's nonjudgmental, accepting awareness of his/her present-moment experience – is in many ways and significantly related to psychotherapy. Throughout history, various spiritual and philosophical traditions were helping people strengthen mindfulness and therefore live less stressful, healthier and more fulfilling life. In ps...

Mindfulness involves nonjudgmental, accepting awareness of what is going on in the present moment. In this article, the authors describe their integration of mindfulness and transactional analysis theory into mindfulness-based transactional analysis (MBTA). MBTA is a 8-week psychoeducational program that invites participants to become fully present...

Although anxiety is one of the key phenomena in psychotherapy and related fields as well as in everyday life, the concept still lacks satisfactory scientific definition. Among the key reasons for this is unclear and unsuitable differentiation between anxiety and fear. Traditional distinctions between these two emotions were based on the perception...

The construct of mindfulness is being investigated with increasing frequency in clinical and health psychology. It can be defined as non-judgemental, accepting awareness of what is going on in present moment. Mindfulness interventions have shown promising results across a wide spectrum of clinical and nonclinical problems, from stress, various psyc...

Čuječnost je konstrukt, ki je čedalje pogosteje predmet raziskav v klinični in zdravstveni psihologiji. Opredeliti ga je mogoče kot nepresojajoče, sprejemajoče zavedanje dogajanja v sedanjem trenutku. Čuječnostne intervence so izkazale obetavne rezultate na širokem spektru kliničnih in nekliničnih problemov, od stresa, različnih psihiatričnih moten...

Following the pyramid approach to cognitive neuroscience, we review the findings about the role of appraisal processes in generating emotion. Presented and discussed are studies in cognitive psychology, computational modelling, neuro-science and cognitive neuropsychology. It is demonstrated that integrative features of the pyramid approach to cogni...