naa a22 4500 510730043 CHVBK 20180411082949.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12671-012-0112-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12671-012-0112-7 Evaluation of an Occupational Mindfulness Program for Staff Employed in the Disability Sector in Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Joanne Brooker, John Julian, Lynne Webber, Jeffrey Chan, Frances Shawyer, Graham Meadows] Employees in the disability sector are subject to a range of stressors in the work place, and it is important that employers provide stress-management interventions to optimize coping and psychological wellbeing of these staff. The purpose of this preliminary study was to evaluate the impact of a group-based training program, known as ‘Occupational Mindfulness' (OM), on employee coping and wellbeing within a disability service in Australia. The study involved a longitudinal observational design. Thirty-four participants (22 managers and 12 disability support workers, aged 23 to 60years) completed a range of mindfulness and psychological wellbeing measures prior to commencement of the OM training program and immediately following completion of the program. The program was positively evaluated by participants and found to be associated with significant increases in positive affect and the mindfulness facet of observing. In contrast, extrinsic job satisfaction decreased significantly from baseline to post-training, while negative affect, perceived stress, anxiety and negative emotional symptoms increased significantly. Depressive state, intrinsic job satisfaction, general job satisfaction, satisfaction with life, burnout, compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, compassion for others, self compassion and the four mindfulness facets of describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience and non-reactivity to inner experience did not change significantly from baseline to post-training. Participants reported enhanced awareness of signs and sources of stress, and positive changes in self-care attitudes and behaviours and interactions with clients and colleagues. Reasons for the seemingly paradoxical findings of highly favourable participant evaluation of the OM training program alongside increases in perceived stress, anxiety, negative emotional symptoms and negative affect and decreases in job satisfaction immediately following the program are discussed. Overall, the OM program yielded a range of benefits to participants and holds significant potential to be transferred to other work settings in the future. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2012 Mindfulness nationallicence Disability support workers nationallicence Disability sector managers nationallicence Work stress nationallicence Psychological wellbeing nationallicence Brooker Joanne Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut Julian John Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut Webber Lynne Office of the Senior Practitioner, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia aut Chan Jeffrey Office of the Chief Practitioner Disability, Department of Communities, Child Safety & Disability, Brisbane, Australia aut Shawyer Frances Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut Meadows Graham Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut Mindfulness Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2013-06-01), 122-136 1868-8527 4:2<122 2013 4 12671 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-012-0112-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-012-0112-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brooker Joanne Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Julian John Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Webber Lynne Office of the Senior Practitioner, Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chan Jeffrey Office of the Chief Practitioner Disability, Department of Communities, Child Safety & Disability, Brisbane, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shawyer Frances Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meadows Graham Southern Synergy, Notting Hill Campus, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, c/- Wellington Road, 3800, Clayton, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mindfulness Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2013-06-01), 122-136 1868-8527 4:2<122 2013 4 12671 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer