Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research (ePub)

Fiona Moir, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Medical Student Affairs at the University of Auckland. She has integrated mindfulness into the medical programme as part of the 'SAFE-DRS' wellbeing curriculum. Fiona has created comprehensive pastoral care policies and pathways for medical students, and mental health strategies for the wider university. She is a Director of two companies: 'Connect Communications' providing wellbeing, supervision and communication skills training and 'First Response' specialising in peer-interventions for identifying and responding to distress in the workplace. In 2018, she won the University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

Rex Billington, PhD, has training in health and educational psychology. He has held academic posts in medical schools in USA and Scotland before joining the World Health Organization in 1982 where he worked for 18 years in a career appointment. He held senior posts in Educational Development, and Directorships in the Global Programme on AIDS and Mental Health. In recent years, he has been an Adjunct Professor and Professorial Fellow at Auckland University of Technology. Special interests are in public health, psychometrics, positive psychology and quality of life assessment. Now in semi-retirement he enjoys contributing to mental health community development programmes particularly outcomes assessment, supporting research and mentoring.

Richard J. Siegert, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Auckland University of Technology. His research interests include psychometrics, outcomes in mental health and rehabilitation, goal setting and applying mindfulness techniques for people with chronic health conditions. Richard is on the editorial committee of the journals Disability and Rehabilitation and Mindfulness. He is an author on over 140 articles in international journals and an author of two popular textbooks on rehabilitation. His most recent book is Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence published recently by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.