I am now Professor Emerita and no longer accepting new students or lab volunteers. If you are a prospective grad student who is interested in mindfulness research, consider applying to work with Dr. Marcie Goeke-Morey (goekemorey@cua.edu) in the Family Mindfulness Lab.
The Mindfulness and Sport research team has been investigating mindfulness-based interventions for athletes since 2005, when the initial version of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE®) was developed. For more information, visit http://www.mindfulsportperformance.org. Our research has included:
A "best practice" study of MSPE for a club men's rugby team, exploring the role of scheduling mindfulness training either before or after sport practice
Using Consensual Qualitative Research methods to analyze post-MSPE interviews with 10 college rugby players to learn about their experiences learning mindfulness
The role of self-compassion and mindfulness in predicting college student-athletes' daily negative and positive emotions and emotion regulation/coping strategies after the abrupt end of their season due to COVID-19
An examination of the moderating role of age on the effects of mindfulness training for female college student-athletes (lacrosse, field hockey, track and field)
A randomized controlled trial of MSPE and psychological skills training (collegiate track and field team)
Outcome study comparing MSPE and an assessment control group, including state measures of mindfulness, flow, and sport anxiety (women’s collegiate field hockey teams)
Mindfulness training for athletes: Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness from within an athletic department (women’s collegiate lacrosse team)
College athletes’ expectations and experiences with MSPE
MSPE for college coaches
A randomized controlled trial of MSPE for mixed-sport collegiate athletes
MSPE for high school athletes
Self- and team efficacy beliefs of rowers and their relation to mindfulness and flow
MSPE for adult recreational athletes (golfers, archers, long-distance runners) and a long-term follow-up
Other studies in my former Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Psychotherapy Integration (AMPIR) Lab focused on several other major areas of interest:
Anxiety and Mindfulness: Research dealt with mindfulness and cognitive factors in anxiety, with greatest emphasis on relations between mindfulness-based interventions and emotions, cognition, personality, and psychological well-being. Some of the areas addressed in previous studies include:
Effects of iRest Yoga Nidra and acupuncture on psychological health in veterans
Development of a measure of mindfulness-related cognitions
Meta-analysis of the effects of mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions and cognitive-behavioral interventions on positive and negative affect
Outcome research on optimal ways to teach mindfulness interventions for stress in University students, including long-term effects
Relations between mindfulness, psychological inflexibility, and trait neuroticism
The role of self-compassion, mindfulness, and psychological inflexibility as predictors of psychological health
Mindfulness, acceptance, distress tolerance, and response to trauma memory activation
Psychotherapy Integration: Research primarily focused on understanding the ways in which different approaches to psychotherapy are combined and integrated in actual practice, including the integration of mindfulness into different psychotherapy orientations. Recent studies included:
Predictors and moderators of an internet program for post-traumatic stress in Veterans
Integrating technology into the collaborative assessment of suicide risk
Ways that therapists of different theoretical orientations trained in the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) apply it in clinical practice
Outcome expectations as they relate to the outcome of psychotherapy
How therapists of different theoretical orientations use DBT and EMDR
Psychotherapy integration as practiced by experts
Review of outcome studies on integrative psychotherapies
Predictors of engagement and outcome in an integrated trauma treatment for women
Outcome research on Trauma-Focused Integrative Play Therapy