By Alice G. Walton
April 18, 2017
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.