Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
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Dr. David Treleaven has been working with mindfulness for over 20 years and is knowledgeable in this area as well as in the areas of psychotherapy and trauma theory. His definition of mindfulness c...
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- Authors
- Novak, E. T.
- Corresponding author
- Novak, Edward T.
- Venue
- Transactional Analysis Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-05-18
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 288-290
- ISSN
- 0362-1537 (ISSN-L)
- 2329-5244
- OpenAlex
- W2803630463
- Semantic Scholar
- bd94cd464936c5a108ccaebdea590f30ca11e17a
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 7.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Transactional Analysis Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- mindfulness, trauma recovery, psychotherapy, trauma theory
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