Open Dialogue and the Impact of Therapist Mindfulness on the Health of Clients

Abstract

The value of mindfulness for clinical staff in the mental health field has thus been increasingly recognised over recent year and thus is now culminating in the evaluation and, potential future role out, of whole system approaches like Open Dialogue that put clinician mindfulness at the heart of the model. It is anticipated that this will ultimately be for the benefit of both staff and clients of these services alike, creating improvements and improving lives, therefore, on many levels.

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“…Therapist Mindfulness and Professional Resilience: From patients to the healthcare system, there is an increasing call for incorporating mindfulness training for therapists and health service professionals. Razzaque [20] introduced Open Dialogue, which put clinician mindfulness at the heart of a network model, as the operationalisation of mindfulness into a mental health system to improve patient health outcomes. A multi-centre randomised controlled study is currently underway in the UK to test the model with the results due to be released in 2022.…”