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Record W4408842689 · doi:10.15173/mumj.v21i1.3702

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy History and Mechanisms

2025· article· en· W4408842689 on OpenAlexaff
Madeline Komar, Irene Zhao, Rabia Tahir, Jianwei Du

Bibliographic record

VenueMcMaster University Medical Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University Medical Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMindfulnessPsychotherapistPsychologyCognitionMindfulness-based cognitive therapyCognitive therapyNeuroscience

Abstract

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Mindfulness has become a popular term in the 21st-century zeitgeist. Researchers have attempted to establish that anyone can reap benefits from practicing mindfulness, ranging from healthcare professionals (HCPs) and business executives to patients experiencing florid psychosis. Given the abundance of research on mindfulness-based intervention, it would be prudent for HCPs to understand the proposed mechanism of action through which mindfulness-based therapy confers benefit. Therefore, this commentary article seeks to describe the history and mechanisms of change underlying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as developed by Segal et al. in 1996.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.922
Threshold uncertainty score0.808

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1930.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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