Immediate Effects of Interoceptive Awareness Training through Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) for Women in Substance use Disorder Treatment

Price, Cynthia; Thompson, Elaine Adams; Crowell, Sheila E.; Pike, Kenneth C.; Cheng, Sunny Chieh; Parent, Sara; Hooven, Carole

doi:10.1080/08897077.2018.1488335

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“…The gentle, coached MABT approach is thus used to facilitate learning, and also helps to build trust and comfort with the material, slowly increasing sensitivity to internal states and awareness of complex internal responses that can shape awareness, self-understanding, decision making processes, and behavior that underlie regulation. MABT research in community settings demonstrates the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of MABT ( Price, 2005 , 2006 ; Price et al, 2007 , 2012 , 2013 ; Price and Crowell, 2016 ). These studies involved samples with co-occurring conditions and extensive trauma histories, highlighting the acceptability of MABT teaching processes among highly distressed populations.…”

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Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

2018

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Emotion regulation involves a coherent relationship with the self, specifically effective communication between body, mind, and feelings. Effective emotion regulation involves the ability to accurately detect and evaluate cues related to physiological reactions to stressful events, accompanied by appropriate regulation strategies that temper and influence the emotional response. There is compelling evidence demonstrating links between poor or disrupted awareness of sensory information, or interoceptive awareness, and difficulties with emotion regulation. This paper presents a framework, based on psychological and neurobiological research, for understanding how interoceptive awareness facilitates regulation and an integrated sense of self, and thus contributes to health and well-being. A mind-body therapeutic approach called mindful awareness in body-oriented therapy (MABT), uniquely designed to teach fundamental skills of interoceptive awareness, is described. MABT develops the distinct interoceptive awareness capacities of identifying, accessing, and appraising internal bodily signals that are identified in physiological models as the critical components of interoception for emotion regulation. The explanatory model is that the development of these key interoceptive capacities improves sensory (physical and emotional) awareness, reduces distress, and improves regulation. Strategies for teaching and learning interoceptive awareness are not well-developed in mindfulness or psychotherapeutic approaches, particularly important for people who may have difficulty attending to interoceptive awareness due to stress, chronic pain or trauma. To address this issue, MABT provides an individualized protocol for scaffolding interoceptive awareness through a combination of psychoeducation and somatic approaches explicitly addressing difficulties with interoceptive processing. Clinical vignettes are included to provide exemplars of this approach and to highlight key components of the therapeutic process. Results from research are also included to highlight the acceptability, safety, health outcomes, and possible mechanisms underlying the MABT approach.

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Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

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“…Somewhat simpler studies, without that type of mediation analysis, have shown that changes in interoceptive awareness were found in parallel with changes in clinical outcomes. Examples include integrative, body-awareness-focused movement exercises for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Mehling, Chesney, et al, 2018); mindful awareness in body-oriented therapy for substance-use disorder (Price et al, 2019a(Price et al, , 2019b; Qigong for postsurgical pain in patients with breast cancer (Osypiuk et al, 2020); and other mindfulness-based interventions for women with obesity (Daubenmier et al, 2016) or for hypertension (Loucks et al, 2019). The analyses in the latter studies support the hypotheses that the improvements in clinical outcomes may potentially be associated with improvements in interoceptive bodily awareness, but without mediation analysis, these studies are unable to confirm that this improvement in a clinical outcome occurred because of improved bodily awareness.…”

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If It All Comes Down to Bodily Awareness, How Do We Know? Assessing Bodily Awareness

Mehling¹

2020

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A purported key mechanism of action in most mind–body movement approaches is the maturation and development of bodily awareness. This is an experiential learning process with its own phenomenology, underlying neurological processes, and challenges for scientific study. This report focuses on the assessment of changes in bodily awareness, which is of key importance for the documentation of this learning process for both research and clinical application. Objective assessments requiring lab equipment are briefly reviewed. Qualitative assessments can be performed by interviews, focus groups, and second-person observation of movement performance. In addition, systematically developed self-report questionnaires have become available in recent years, have undergone extensive validation, and are presented here.

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“…Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) is a manualized, mindfulness-based approach that is designed to teach interoceptive skills for self-care [23]. Interoception is the ability to process signals that originate in the body and is broadly described as the overall sensations, or state, of the body [60].…”

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“…Stage 2 of the MABT program (sessions 3 and 4) is directed at learning and developing strategies for interoceptive awareness (access), which is a more advanced aspect of body literacy that adds upon the skills learned in the first stage [23]. This stage focuses on sensations that are still quite overt and apparent, such as the sensation of breathing in and out, but clients are beginning to refine their bodily awareness.…”

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“…The final stage of MABT (sessions 5 through 8) is aimed at developing the ability to maintain/sustain interoceptive awareness throughout one's daily life (appraisal) [23]. The ability to sustain this awareness of bodily sensations allows the client to detach oneself from the uncomfortable physical sensations that may be occurring in a situation, and allow themselves to reframe the experience more positively.…”

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Mindfulness-based programs for substance use disorders: a systematic review of manualized treatments

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Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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Background: Substance use disorders are prevalent and returning to substance use (i.e., relapse) following treatment is common, underscoring the need for effective treatments that will help individuals maintain long-term reductions in substance use. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been increasingly developed and evaluated for the treatment of substance use disorders. The aim of this article was to update a systematic review conducted by Li et al. in 2017 on the outcomes of randomized control trials of MBIs for substance use disorders. In addition, we provided a session-by-session examination of the most widely used MBI protocols. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive literature search of the PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases from January of 2016 through April of 2020. Studies were included based on the following criteria: 1) examined the effects of an MBI, 2) employed a randomized controlled trial design with repeated measures, including secondary data analyses of randomized controlled trials, and 3) enrolled participants seeking treatment for substance use disorders. Results: The search identified 902 publications and 30 studies were eligible for inclusion and data extraction. MBIs appear to be as effective as existing evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders at reducing the frequency and quantity of alcohol and drug use, substance-related problems, craving for substance use, and at increasing the rate of abstinence. Conclusions: Future directions include additional large scale randomized controlled trials, investigation of the most suitable settings and protocols, examination of patient populations that may benefit most from MBIs, and dissemination and implementation research.

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Immediate Effects of Interoceptive Awareness Training through Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) for Women in Substance use Disorder Treatment

Cited by 60 publications

References 79 publications

Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

If It All Comes Down to Bodily Awareness, How Do We Know? Assessing Bodily Awareness

Mindfulness-based programs for substance use disorders: a systematic review of manualized treatments

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