Is Centered’s mindfulness-based program backed by research?

Yes! Centered Recovery’s unique mindfulness program doesn’t make any claims that aren’t backed by experts in the fields of psychology, neurology, mental health, and addiction. Below are just a few examples of published research that were referenced or used in the creation of our cutting-edge, comprehensive program, Transformational Recovery ©. Centered utilizes the Transformational Recovery curriculum in the effective treatment of anxiety, stress, depression, burnout, alcohol abuse disorder, and substance use disorder. 

Expert Research in the field of mindfulness related to mental and physical health 

Mindfulness meditation: A research-proven way to reduce stress https://www.apa.org/topics/mindfulness/meditation#:~:text=Researchers%20reviewed%20more%20than%20200,%20previous%20episodes%20of%20major%20depression

Trends and Developments in Mindfulness Research over 55 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications Indexed in Web of Science https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8282773/#:~:text=From%201966%20to%202021,%2016,581,%20depression,%20stress,%20and%20anxiety.

Mindfulness-Based Treatment to Prevent Addictive Behavior Relapse: Theoretical Models and Hypothesized Mechanisms of Change. Katie Witkiewitz, Sarah Bowen, Erin N. Harrop, Haley Douglas, Matthew Enkema, and Carly Sedgwick. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5441879/

Trying to be happier really can work: Two experimental studies, Yuna L. Ferguson, retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2012.747000

Meditative Therapies for Reducing Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials, Chen et al, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3718554/?_escaped_fragment_=po=6.57895

The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Therapy on Anxiety and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review, Hoffman et al, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848393/

Plasticity in the frequency representation of primary auditory cortex following discrimination training in adult owl monkeys. GH Recanzone, CE Schreiner and MM Merzenich, retrieved from https://www.jneurosci.org/content/13/1/87.long

Antidepressant Use Among Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2011–2014. Pratt et al, retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db283.pdf

Alcohol Facts and Statistics, retrieved from https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-facts-and-statistics

Mindfulness-Based Therapies for Substance Use Disorders: Part 1 (Editorial). Marcus et al, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818765/

Brain Scans Show How Meditation Improves Mental Focus. Brian Gowin, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201204/brain-scans-show-how-meditation-improves-mental-focus

Practical support aids addiction recovery: the positive identity model of change, Johansen, et al, retrieved from https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-13-201

How Mindfulness Makes the Brain Immune to Temptation. Kelly McGonigal. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-willpower/201111/how-mindfulness-makes-the-brain-immune-temptation

Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Substance Use Disorders: A Pilot Efficacy Trial, Bowen, et al, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3280682/

Relative efficacy of mindfulness-based relapse prevention, standard relapse prevention, and treatment as usual for substance use disorders: a randomized clinical trial, Bowen, et al, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24647726

The Clinical Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Treatments for Alcohol and Drugs Use Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized and Nonrandomized Controlled Trials, Cavicchioli M.,  Movalli M.,  Maffei C., retrieved from https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/490762

Meditation and psychotherapy: A rationale for the integration of dynamic psychotherapy, the relaxation response, and mindfulness meditation. Kutz, I., Boryensko, J.Z. & Benson, H. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3881049/

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Mindfulness‐Based Interventions in Context: Past, Present, and Future, Jon Kabat-Zinn. retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1093/clipsy.bpg016

Human Needs, Buddhist Psychology and Mindfulness, Michael Formica. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/enlightened-living/201301/human-needs-buddhist-psychology-and-mindfulness

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, McLeod. Retrieved from http://highgatecounselling.org.uk/members/certificate/CT2%20Paper%201.pdf

Feeling Sleepy? An Urge to Nap Is Built In, by Daniel Goleman, retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/12/science/feeling-sleepy-an-urge-to-nap-is-built-in.html

Water, Hydration and Health, by Barry M. Popkin, Kristen E. D’Anci, and Irwin H. Rosenberg, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908954/

The Far-Reaching Effects of Believing People Can Change: Implicit Theories of Personality Shape Stress, Health, and Achievement During Adolescence. Yeager, et al, retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262538735_The_far-reaching_effects_of_believing_people_can_change_Implicit_theories_of_personality_shape_stress_health_and_achievement_during_adolescence

Mind-sets matter: a meta-analytic review of implicit theories and self-regulation. Burnette, et al. retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866678

The Influence of Emotion on Cognitive Control: Relevance for Development and Adolescent Psychopathology. Sven Mueller, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223617/.

Perception And Reality. RJ Rummel, retrieved from https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DPF.CHAP7.HTM

Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference, Farb, et al. retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/2/4/313/1676557

Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Substance Use Disorders: A Pilot Efficacy Trial, Bowen, et al. retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08897070903250084

Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician’s Guide, Bowen, et al. https://www.guilford.com/books/Mindfulness-Based-Relapse-Prevention-for-Addictive-Behaviors/Bowen-Chawla-Grow-Marlatt/9781462545315?srsltid=AfmBOoprqVlS5zSnf-8B-Ebt7E2xDPjlHgiFgL2Cplk_0t2m2u_W_O28

When Belief Creates Reality, Mark Snyder, retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S006526010860146X

Surfing the Urge: Experiential Acceptance Moderates the Relation Between Automatic Alcohol Motivation and Hazardous Drinking. Ostafin and Marlatt, retrieved from https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jscp.2008.27.4.404

Mindfulness-based stress reduction for stress management in healthy people: a review and meta-analysis, A Chiesa and A Serretti, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK77489/.

When science meets mindfulness, Alvin Powell, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-researchers-study-how-mindfulness-may-change-the-brain-in-depressed-patients/.

Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies, Shian-Ling Keng, Moria J. Smoski, Clive J. Robins, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679190/.

Sleep Disorders in Substance Abusers, How Common Are They?, Youssef Mahfoud, MD, Farid Talih, MD, David Streem, MD, and Kumar Budur, MD retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2766287/

The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality, Amanda Gefter, retrieved from https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/

Addiction as temporal disruption: interoception, self, meaning. Kemp, retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11097-018-9578-7

Effects of coping skills training on generalized self-efficacy and locus of control. Ronald Smith, retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1989-20710-001

Handbook for Strategic HR – Section 3: Use of Self as an Instrument of Change. Network, et al.

Listening: A Vital Skill. Kenneth C. Petress.

Why Don’t We Listen Better?: Communicating & Connecting in Relationships. Jim Petersen.

Understanding Delusions. Chandra Kiran, Suprakash Chaudhury, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016695/

The consequences of fear. David Ropeik, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299209/

Fear, Anger, and Risk. Lerner and Keltner, retrieved from https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/Lerner-2001-FearAngerRisk.pdf

How does stress increase risk of drug abuse and relapse? Since R. retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11797055/

How Labels Limit Us and We, In Turn, Limit Our Own Potential. Michael J Formica MS, MA, EdM, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/enlightened-living/200807/how-labels-limit-us-and-we-in-turn-limit-our-own-potential

Measuring Codependency, Fisher and Spann. retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J020V08N01_06

The Role of Acceptance and Job Control in Mental Health, Job Satisfaction, and Work Performance, Bond and Bunce. retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-09785-007

Narratives of recovery from addictive behaviours, Hanninen and Koski-Jannes, retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.941218379.x

6 Signs of a Codependent Relationship. Linda Esposito, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-zen/201609/6-signs-codependent-relationship

What Codependency Is, and What It Isn’t. Ann Smith, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healthy-connections/201507/what-codependency-is-and-what-it-isnt

Neuroscience Research Shows How Mood Impacts Perception. Susan Krauss Whitbourne, retrieved from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201611/neuroscience-research-shows-how-mood-impacts-perception

How emotions affect logical reasoning: evidence from experiments with mood-manipulated participants, spider phobics, and people with exam anxiety, by Nadine Jung, Christina Wranke, Kai Hamburger, and Markus Knauff retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050437/

Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Insights from Neurobiological, Psychological, and Clinical Studies, by Simón Guendelman, Sebastián Medeiros, and Hagen Rampes, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337506/

Stress relief from laughter? It’s no joke, retrieved from:  https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress-relief/art-20044456

The Science of Laughter, by Robert Provine, retrieved from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200011/the-science-laughter

Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold, by R. I. M. Dunbar , Rebecca Baron , Anna Frangou , Eiluned Pearce , Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen , Julie Stow , Giselle Partridge , Ian MacDonald , Vincent Barra and Mark van Vugt

Published:14 September 2011 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1373 retrieved from https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.1373

Laugh it Up: Why Laughing Brings Us Closer Together, retrieved from: https://www.psychalive.org/laugh-it-up-why-laughing-brings-us-closer-together/

The Effects of Two Novel Gratitude and Mindfulness Interventions on Well-Being, Karen O’ Leary, MA, and Samantha Dockray, PhD, retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen_Matvienko-Sikar/publication/274317810_The_Effects_of_Two_Novel_Gratitude_and_Mindfulness_Interventions_on_Well-Being/links/55310e440cf2f2a588abfccd/The-Effects-of-Two-Novel-Gratitude-and-Mindfulness-Interventions-on-Well-Being.pdf

The Science and Research on Gratitude and Happiness, Erica Stoerkel, retrieved from https://positivepsychology.com/gratitude-happiness-research/

The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful awareness, and states of mental tranquility. Vago and Zeidan, retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866730/

The brain’s default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to disease. Buckner, et al. retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400922

Why New Years Resolutions Fail. Shainna Ali, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-mentality/201812/why-new-years-resolutions-fail

5 Tips for Setting Healthy Goals, David Feldman, retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/supersurvivors/201902/5-tips-setting-healthy-goals

Mental practice and physical practice in learning a motor skill. Twining, W. E. retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1950-03080-001.

The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain. Spachter, et al. retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815616/

4 Scientific Reasons Why Visualizations Will Increase Your Chances to Succeed. Emilie Pelletier, retrieved from https://medium.com/@EmiliePelletier/4-scientific-reasons-why-visualization-will-increase-your-chances-to-succeed-5515ef2dbdb7