Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research

This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of assessment instruments used in mindfulness research. It discusses traditional and modern approaches used to develop psychometric measures and to establish their reliability and validity, such as classical test theory, item response theory and Rasch model, generalizability theory, facet benchmarking, and network analysis. The handbook provides information on conceptual foundations, development, and psychometric properties of assessment instruments used to measure mindfulness in children, adolescents, and adults. In addition, it provides similar information on scales used in specific contexts and for various purposes. It reviews behavioral, cognitive, and psychophysiological assessment measures of mindfulness. The handbook examines a broad range of psychological, physical health, and mental health, and related measures that are used in mindfulness research. This reference work enables researchers to choose appropriate measurement tools fora broad range of mindfulness research.
Key areas of coverage include:

• Nature and theoretical foundations of assessment.
• Origins and definitions of mindfulness.
• Mindfulness scales for children and adolescents.
• Mindfulness scales for adults.
• Mindfulness scales for specific contexts and purposes.
• Mindfulness and Buddhist-related scales.
• Behavioral assessments of mindfulness.
• Cognitive and psychophysiological assessments of mindfulness.

The Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other mental health practitioners in clinical psychology and affiliated medical and mental health disciplines, including complementary and alternative medicine, social work, occupational and rehabilitation therapy.

Oleg N. Medvedev, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research spans mindfulness-based interventions, affective disorders, schizophrenia, stroke, and dementia, employing advanced methodological approaches including Generalizability Theory, Rasch measurement models, network analyses, AI and machine learning. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 book chapters and is co-author of Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments and co-editor of International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment. Oleg is joint Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Mindfulness and Journal of Psychology and AI.

Chris Krägeloh, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research spans health outcome measurement, psychosocial aspects of robotics and AI, and empirical and conceptual studies in mindfulness. He has authored over 150 journal articles and several books, including Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research. Apart from the Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research, he is also a co-editor of another major reference work on assessment, the International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment. Chris serves as joint Editor-in-Chief of Mindfulness, the leading journal in the field, and has recently co-launched a new journal, Journal of Psychology & AI.

Richard Siegert, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Auckland University of Technology. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in corrections, mental health, private practice and neurology. He lectured in Psychology at VUW 1991-2002 where he was Director of the Clinical Psychology programme for six years. He was head of the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit at the University of Otago (Wellington) 2002 -2007 before teaching in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation at King’s College London from 2007 – 2012. With almost 200 journal articles and several books to his name, Richard’s primary research interests focus on mindfulness, measurement and outcomes in mental health, rehabilitation and palliative care. He has been an active mindfulness researcher since 2014 with a special interest in mindfulness and neurological rehabilitation.

Nirbhay N. Singh, PhD, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA. His research interests include mindfulness, behavioral treatment for individuals with disabilities, and assistive technology for supporting individuals with severe, profound, and multiple disabilities. Dr. Singh has served as the founding editor of four international journals, including Mindfulness, and currently serves as the editor of three Springer book series: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health, Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health, and Children and Families. A prolific researcher, he has over 800 publications, including 30 books, 125 book chapters, and more than 650 peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition, he is the Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices.