The Use of Mindfulness Techniques for Improving Mental Wellbeing and Reducing Depression and Anxiety in Australian University Students

This report explores the use of mindfulness techniques to improve mental wellbeing and reduce depression and anxiety in Australian university students. It includes an annotated bibliography and evaluation of case studies. The report highlights the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and its impact on mood problems and anxiety. It also discusses the benefits of mindfulness-based programs in non-clinical settings for reducing stress and promoting mental health. The report concludes with recommendations for implementing mindfulness practices in university settings.

The use of mindfulness
techniques for improving
mental wellbeing and
reducing depression and
anxiety in Australian
University students

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Assessment 1: letter to editor...........................................................................................................1
An annotated bibliography and evaluation of case study:..........................................................1
Write the Letter to the Editor......................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................8
Evaluate the methodological quality of each study and document in a table.............................8

INTRODUCTION
Improvisation of mental wellbeing and reduction of depression and anxiety is processed
as by maintaining sustained level of expression about adequate feeling through which stress is
manage according to striving of balanced (Aldridge and McChesney, 2018). Mental wellbeing is
enhanced as by connecting with more of people through which better relations are developed as
with this active level of enhancement of fitness and health is processed with adequateness. The
report below is based on usage of mindfulness techniques that is used to improvise mental health,
reduction of depression and anxiety of Australian University students.
MAIN BODY
Assessment 1: letter to editor
An annotated bibliography and evaluation of case study:
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Introduction: It is related to the mindfulness dependent theory through which popular
level of treatment through which living efficiency and its attractiveness is developed in organised
manner. It usually refers to the process that maintain sustained lead towards non-judgmental
awareness which is dependent on experience, thoughts, sensation, bodily state, consciousness,
environment that collectively resulted into encouragement of openness and acceptance.
Aims & Research methods: The aim of this to analyse the effective size as concern of
clinical samples related to popular intervention about mod symptoms and anxiety (Bamber and
Morpeth, 2019). In terms of research methods 39 studies are involved and in total from 1140
number of participants as with this range of condition such as cancer, anxiety disorder,
depression and other medical basis get analysed.
Scope: The scope of this is to examine the efficiency about mindfulness practices through
which excessive level of orientation is developed and designed towards future dealing.
Usefulness: It is being beneficiary as in this stress is reduced along with controlling of
anxiety that assist to characterised based on treatment session, effects of moderator variable in
summarised manner.
Limitations: There are different limitations that is measured as it is dependent over meta
analytics and it is also be interpreted that relative and considerable approach is used in order to
collect suitable data (Ungar and Theron, 2020).
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Conclusions: It has been concluded that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is the most
popular form of mood problems and anxiety (Boullier and Blair, 2018). In regard of this
intervention and its strategies is used to justify about comprehensive size and effect about
promising treatment.
Reflection: The mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is dependent over clinical
formation towards medical and physical disorder. In addition, it is processed as per acceptance
and commitment in order to perform and measure mood as well as anxiety symptoms. If
symptoms get elevated than a course of improvement and treatment both get pre-treatment and
with this conservative ending is resulted in timely frame.
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Introduction: depression is listed as the largest cause with disability and other mental
disorder as well and in concern of this preventive programmes are prioritising that is introduce
within schools, communities, workplace and at targeted psychological distress. It is more
typically induced adequate awareness that is emerged as by paying sustained attention toward
accomplishment of purpose (Byrd, Milner and Luke, 2020). To access this on clinical setting get
accumulated as by synthesising healthcare professionalism.
Aims & Research methods: The aim is to examine the course through which community
setting is analysed in support of reduction of distress and increment of wellbeing. To perform
research both selected and extracted method is appraised under which primary outcome is about
psychometrically validated anxiety and for secondary outcome meta regression and sensitivity
analysis is processed.
Scope: The scope of this research is to multivariate meta analyses in concern of adequate
domain which also consist of moderate estimation which is drive from single trail. In this
significant changes are induced as per relation of mindfulness-based theory as it assists to make
adequate control over improvisation as in this higher level of risk is controlled with consistent
manner.
Usefulness: It is used to assess and advance mental health and well-being that is related to
sustained level of intervention that is relative to health promotion and reduction of stress (Semple
and Willard, 2019).
Limitations: The major limitation behind this it that it reviews adequate level of
confidence that is dependent over grading of recommendation and its assessment, evaluation and
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development that is moderately low and mainly it is due to higher risk and sustained level of
inconsistency.
Conclusions: It is concluded that in comparison to mindfulness-based therapy that
promote mental health in support of non-clinical meetings and offer a heterogeneity studies
(airncross and Miller, 2020). There are some specific effects over mental health symptoms which
is processed in terms of preventive intervention.
Reflection: It is reflected that mindfulness plays vital course in order to fulfil community
needs which is implemented in terms of care as it is not assumed that it is applied for all. There is
an additional need to develop quality research that is collaborative and beneficial towards
community’s advancement which is processed by developing aims to manage stress over
different situation.
Write the Letter to the Editor
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Mindfulness is essential for mental health and well-being as in support of training it assist
to make better level of awareness about thoughts, body sensation and feelings rather than being
overwhelmed. Practising aid to process sustained insight through emotions, enhancement of
concentration and attentiveness along with advancement of interrelationship (Foster, Cuzzillo
and Furness, 2018). The college students have a lot of stress as with this also facing a lot of
difficulties in terms of functionality
It is recommended that treatment of more individual as about mental ill-health and its
improvisation is evident for recurring of depression and for this flexible skills are managed in
order to support individual well-being and mental health. In relation to university students it
induces positive outcome along with this individual behaviour and working prospect also get
managed and controlled with adequateness (Golightley and Goemans, 2020). A successful
mindfulness practice more frequently lowers the stress level under which ability to deal with
exams and also assist to enhance learning competency along with clear concentration.
As per concern of mindfulness based programme that is also be dependent on mental
health get promote within adults in support of non-clinical settings that usually randomised and
controlled meta-analysis and its trails. It is basically implemented in order to reduce stress level
within this comprehensive and synthesis is developed that promote relatedness of mental health
which also be intervene and comparative to health. It has been founded that there is a need for
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community to implement various processing with care under which collaborative impact is
induced as by overcoming from stressful situations. The major domain of this research is to
examine outcome dependent over depression, psychological distress, anxiety and mental well-
being which is majorly a prior form under which clinical relevancy is processed in formed
manner. There is a standardised difference in between treatment and sample bias that facilitate
therapeutic factors as like receiving attention from teachers.
On the other hand, in relation to effect of mindfulness based therapy along with
depression and anxiety as with meta analytical review it is analysed that it acts as a better and
efficient treatment that is processed in terms of sustained efficiency. To reduce stress as in
relation with mindfulness dependent stress reduction adequate treatment is provided which is
also be related to contemporary psychotherapy (Jun,Tucker and Melnyk, 2020). Moreover,
sleep down also relates with mindfulness mediation which alleviate different symptoms of stress.
In support of this research it is induced that mindfulness is a form of meditation that aid to
attain sustained focus about intensive awareness about sensing and feeling of certain moment as
without any judgement and interpretation (Rafal, Gatto and DeBate, 2018). It is practiced with
involvement of breathing forms, guided imagery, mind and body relaxation that aid to reduce
stress in moderate manner. It acts as downstream of stress and its response which also induce
direct impact and influence over pathway of stress towards brain under which its structure gets
associated in terms of emotion regulation and attention.
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It is essential to get examine various ideas through which students feel relaxed and relive
stress. Anxiety can also be a major cause of mental exhaustion which induce real impact over
body and mind as well. Mindfulness plays essential role that is developed on the basis of paying
attention within daily life as within this thing get done on typically rush manner. It is a cognitive
approach that is more effective as even compared to medication that also prevent an individual
from depression which is relapse among active depression and its symptoms.
Mindfulness based programmes defined sustained level of awareness which also get
emerged with paying certain attention that uphold all emotion and feeling in controlled manner
(Jaderek and Lew-Starowicz, 2019). There is a prominent basis that is comprised of sustained
training that is in form of both formal and informal such as meditation, scientific form to manage
health and its better suitability. In this University institution worked to improvise classed based
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experience as with this collective and individual inquiry is developed that is more participatory
in relation to learning process. It tends to induce standardised and randomised controlled which
synthesis frequent trails as in between passive and active controlling.
There are various applications it is characterised with on-going moment and experience,
sensation, thoughts, consciousness which encourage an individual to accept all situation in
moderate manner. It also gets involved self-regulation as with this better attention and openness
is developed in effective manner which also be encountered with stressors, excessive orientation
under which both depression and anxiety get controlled with adequateness. It also aids to teach
people about practices through which respond about avoidance of strategies is induce that alter
reflectively instead of reflexively.
It standardised adequate intention and guidance under which direct focus is maintained
towards concentration as it improvises self-awareness and self-esteem under which both anxiety
and depression get improvised and managed. In support of meditation whole body get scanned
that allows to create adequate space in between current moment and thoughts under which
emotions and feeling get encouraged and reinforce experience.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that mindfulness technique is usually used to
improvise and advance mental well-being as well as in order to reduce depression and anxiety of
University students. As it is also being a course that is used to increase well-being and reduction
of stress under which health based practices is promoted and advanced as by assessing of quality
and knowledge in combination of community setting and enhancement.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Bamber, M.D. and Morpeth, E., 2019. Effects of mindfulness meditation on college student
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Boullier, M. and Blair, M., 2018. Adverse childhood experiences. Paediatrics and Child
Health, 28(3), pp.132-137.
Byrd, R., Milner, R. and Luke, C., 2020. 17 Mindfulness Techniques for Working With Children
and Adolescents. Counseling Children and Adolescents: Cultivating Empathic
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Cairncross, M. and Miller, C.J., 2020. The effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapies for
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Golightley, M. and Goemans, R., 2020. Social work and mental health. Sage.
Jaderek, I. and Lew-Starowicz, M., 2019. A Systematic Review on Mindfulness Meditation–
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Semple, R.J. and Willard, C., 2019. The Mindfulness Matters program for children and
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Appendix
Evaluate the methodological quality of each study and document in a table
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/journal.pmed.1003481
In this moderate level of changes is
implemented that is used to
improvise mindfulness therapy as
with this mood swing and anxiety
causes get reduced. In addition to
review mindfulness information is
collected in form of participants and
its based therapy that is associated
with medical conditions.
To develop and design public and professional
stakeholder questions are developed as by prioritising
moderate analysis that is also be dependent over
extracted data, interpreted outcome and developed
summaries. It is also being preferred with systematic
reviewing and meta-analysis through which easy
accessibility is processed with adequateness.
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