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dc.contributor.creatorStevenson, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-11T11:41:26Z
dc.date.available2024-06-11T11:41:26Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.identifier.citationStevenson, K. (2022) 'The benefits of mindfulness as a weekly activity: experiences from a male homeless service' in Zinovieva, I., Andreeva, L. and Karabeleva, S., eds., Psychology- Tradition and Modernity, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 1-3 Jun, St. Kliment Ohridski Press, Bulgaria, 367-377, available: http://hdl.handle.net/10506/2545.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-954-07-5611-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/3323
dc.description.abstractThe social services in Ireland are organized by different organizations which have different views on social activities within residential and homeless services for ser-vice-users. Mindfulness has become a ‘buzzword’ when it comes to mental health treatment and for daily practice in the contemporary world. Despite the different modes or practices of mindfulness, this study provides an example of how mindful-ness can be conducted in the social services, in particular a male homeless residential service. By providing a background on how mindfulness was provided the study in-forms of a real-world experience of a weekly mindfulness session in an Irish male homeless service with five participants. Through a limited quantitative approach to understanding the participants’ experience of one of the mindfulness sessions provided, the study informs of some insights that need to be kept in mind for providing mindfulness in social service work or in other therapeutic settings. The sessions took place over the span of 20 months, with the results via a Likert Scale questionnaire deriving from the views of participants on one particular session rather than their overall views on their experience of the mindfulness sessions in general. The findings reveal that the benefit for the participants is apparent and provides insights into the results and experiences of service users partaking in mindfulness on a weekly basis. It can be concluded that there are some notions to be kept in mind prior and post session, which provides a keen insight into the preparations required.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSt. Kliment Ohridski Pressen_US
dc.rightsOpen Accessen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://research.uni-sofia.bg/handle/10506/2545en_US
dc.subjectHomelessnessen_US
dc.subjectIntrapersonalen_US
dc.subjectInterpersonalen_US
dc.subjectMindfulnessen_US
dc.subjectSocial servicesen_US
dc.titleThe benefits of mindfulness as a weekly activity: experiences from a male homeless serviceen_US
dc.typeConference reporten_US
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dc.type.supercollectionmic_published_revieweden_US
dc.description.versionYesen_US


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