There’s a lot of debate about which form of therapy is the most psychologically effective, the most cost-effective, the quickest working and the longest lasting. They all have their benefits and drawbacks, depending on the individual and the kind of mental health problem he or she is dealing with. A new study reports that an eight-week course of group mindfulness training has a similar efficacy to usual care—in the this case, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), which in recent years has been thought of as the gold standard in psychotherapy for a range of mental health issues. But a key point to keep in mind here is the study was done only over the course of eight weeks, so it’s not totally clear—from this study, at least—whether the results would last over the long-term. Luckily, others suggest that they very well may be.
[For more of this story, written by Alice G. Walton, go to https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...issues/#6f69c0c669aa]
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