Ruth Baer
**Dr. Baer is no longer accepting new graduate students
Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention that originates in Buddhist meditation practices and has been adapted for use in Western mental health settings. I conduct research on the assessment and conceptualization of mindfulness, mindfulness-based interventions, psychological effects of mindfulness meditation, mechanisms by which mindfulness training achieves its beneficial effects, and relationships between mindfulness and other aspects of psychological functioning. I am also interested in mindfulness and related aspects of emotional and cognitive functioning in people with borderline personality disorder and borderline traits.
I teach and supervise several mindfulness-based interventions, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). I am interested in relationships between mindfulness skills and more traditional cognitive-behavioral interventions. I also enjoy psychological assessment and supervising students in a variety of assessment procedures.
Ph.D. West Virginia Univ., 1985
Authored Book:
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In the United Kingdom: Baer, R. A. (in press). Practising Happiness: How Mindfulness Can Free You From Psychological Traps and Help You Build the Life You Want (London, UK: Constable and Robinson
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In the US: Baer, R. A (in press). The Practicing Happiness Workbook: How Mindfulness Can Free You from the Four Psychological Traps that Keep You Stressed, Anxious, and Depressed (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger)
Edited Books:
- Baer, R. A. (Ed.) (in press). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: A clinician's guide (2nd ed.) Elsevier.
- Baer, R. A. (Ed.) (2010). Assessing Mindfulness and acceptance processes in clients: Illuminating the theory and practice of change. New Harbinger.
- Baer, R. A. (Ed.) (2006). Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: A clinician's guide. Elsevier.
Papers and chapters: Mindfulness
- Baer, R. A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 125-143.
- Baer, R. A., Smith G. T., Allen, K. B. (2004). Assessment of mindfulness by self-report: The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills. Assessment, 11, 191-206.
- Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Hopkins, J., Krietemeyer, J., Toney, L. (2006). Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment, 13, 27-45.
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Carmody, J. & Baer, R. A. (2008). Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms, and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 23-33.
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Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., et al. (2008). Construct validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in meditating and nonmeditating samples. Assessment, 15, 329-342.
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Carmody, J., & Baer, R. A. (2009). How long does a mindfulness-based stress reduction program need to be? A breif review of class contact hours and effect sizes for psychological disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 65, 627-638.
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Baer, R. A. (2011). Measuring mindfulness. Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12, 241-261.
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Lykins, E., Baer, R. A., & Gottlob, L. R. (2012). Performance-based tests of attention and memory in long-term mindfulness meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36, 103-114.
- Baer, R. A., Lykins, E. L. B., & Peters, J. R. (2012). Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators. Journal of Positive Psychology, 7, 230-238.
- Eisenlohr-Moul, T. A., Peters, J. R., & Baer, R. A. (2014). Using mindfulness effectively in clinical practice: Two case studies (pp. 173-192). In Wedding, D. (Ed.), Case Studies in Psychotherapy. Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Papers and Chapters: Borderline Personality Disorder
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Sauer, S. E. & Baer, R. A. (in press). Ruminative and mindful self-focused attention in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
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Sauer, S. E. & Baer, R. A. (2010). Validation of measures of biosocial precursors to borderline personality disorder: Childhood emotional vulnerability and environmental invalidation. Assessment, 17, 454-466.
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Baer, R. A., Peters, J. R., Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Geiger, P., & Sauer, S. (2012). Emotion-related cognitive processes in borderline personality disorder: A review of the empirical literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 32, 359-369.
- "The practicalities of COVID's impact on nuclear cardiology."Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology(2022):Details.
- "The complementary roles of MPS and CAC in renal patients."Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology29.3(2022):1446.Details.
- "Immediately provisionalized tapered conical connection implants for single-tooth restorations in the maxillary esthetic zone: a 5-year prospective single-cohort multicenter analysis."Clinical oral investigations26.4(2022):3593-3604.Details. Full text
- "The Questionnaire on Self-Transcendence (QUEST): A Measure of Trait Self-Transcendence Informed by Contextual Cognitive Behavioral Therapies."Assessment29.3(2022):508-526.Details. Full text
- "Affective Neural Mechanisms of a Parenting-Focused Mindfulness Intervention."Mindfulness12.2(2021):392-404.Details.
- "An experimental investigation of the effects of self-criticism and self-compassion on implicit associations with non-suicidal self-injury."Behaviour research and therapy139.(2021):103819.Details. Full text
- "A prospective multicenter evaluation of immediately functionalized tapered conical connection implants for single restorations in maxillary anterior and premolar sites: 3-year results."Clinical oral investigations23.4(2019):1877-1885.Details. Full text
- "Characteristics of Repetitive Thought Associated with Borderline Personality Features: A Multimodal Investigation of Ruminative Content and Style."Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment39.3(2017):456-466.Details.
- "Clinical presentation, treatment and outcome of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in Far North Queensland Australian adults."Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.)22.7(2017):520-530.Details. Full text
- "An open prospective single cohort multicenter study evaluating the novel, tapered, conical connection implants supporting single crowns in the anterior and premolar maxilla: interim 1-year results."Clinical oral investigations21.6(2017):2133-2142.Details. Full text
- "The influence of immediately loaded implant treatment in the atrophic edentulous maxilla on oral health related quality of life of edentulous patients: 3-year results of a prospective study."Head & face medicine13.1(2017):21.Details. Full text
- "Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Older Adults: A Review of the Effects on Physical and Emotional Well-being."Mindfulness7.2(2016):296-307.Details.
- "Development and Validation of a Measure of Self-Critical Rumination."Assessment23.3(2016):321-32.Details. Full text
- "Dysfunctional responses to emotion mediate the cross-sectional relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features."Journal of personality disorders29.2(2015):231-40.Details. Full text
- "Predictors of patency after balloon angioplasty in hemodialysis fistulas: a systematic review."Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR25.6(2014):917-24.Details. Full text
- "Self-Regulatory Deficits Associated with Unpracticed Mindfulness Strategies for Coping with Acute Pain."Journal of applied social psychology44.1(2014):23-30.Details.
- "Regarding "Prospective, randomized study of cutting balloon angioplasty versus conventional balloon angioplasty for the treatment of hemodialysis access stenoses"."Journal of vascular surgery60.4(2014):1122.Details. Full text
- "Factors associated with patency following angioplasty of hemodialysis fistulae."Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR25.9(2014):1419-26.Details. Full text
- "Shame and borderline personality features: the potential mediating role of anger and anger rumination."Personality disorders5.1(2014):1-9.Details. Full text
- "The effect of anger rumination in the relationship between borderline personality disorder symptoms and precursors."Journal of personality disorders27.4(2013):465-72.Details. Full text
- "Private hospitals and physician education."Internal medicine journal43.12(2013):1354-5.Details. Full text
- "Relationships among maladaptive cognitive content, dysfunctional cognitive processes, and borderline personality features."Journal of personality disorders27.4(2013):457-64.Details. Full text
- "Brief report: relationships between facets of impulsivity and borderline personality features."Journal of personality disorders27.4(2013):547-52.Details. Full text
- "Ruminative and mindful self-focused attention in borderline personality disorder."Personality disorders3.4(2012):433-41.Details. Full text
- "Weekly change in mindfulness and perceived stress in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program."Journal of clinical psychology68.7(2012):755-65.Details. Full text
- "The "what" and the "how" of dispositional mindfulness: using interactions among subscales of the five-facet mindfulness questionnaire to understand its relation to substance use."Assessment19.3(2012):276-86.Details. Full text
- "Emotion-related cognitive processes in borderline personality disorder: a review of the empirical literature."Clinical psychology review32.5(2012):359-69.Details. Full text
- "Differential item functioning on the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire is minimal in demographically matched meditators and nonmeditators."Assessment18.1(2011):3-10.Details. Full text
- "Relationships between depressive rumination, anger rumination, and borderline personality features."Personality disorders2.2(2011):142-50.Details.
- "Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance."Behavior therapy42.4(2011):676-88.Details. Full text
- "Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM)."Psychological assessment23.3(2011):606-14.Details. Full text
- "Validation of measures of biosocial precursors to borderline personality disorder: childhood emotional vulnerability and environmental invalidation."Assessment17.4(2010):454-66.Details. Full text
- "An empirical study of the mechanisms of mindfulness in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program."Journal of clinical psychology65.6(2009):613-26.Details. Full text
- "Relationships between thought suppression and symptoms of borderline personality disorder."Journal of personality disorders23.1(2009):48-61.Details. Full text
- "How long does a mindfulness-based stress reduction program need to be? A review of class contact hours and effect sizes for psychological distress."Journal of clinical psychology65.6(2009):627-38.Details. Full text
- "Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program."Journal of behavioral medicine31.1(2008):23-33.Details. Full text
- "Psychological inflexibility in childhood and adolescence: development and evaluation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth."Psychological assessment20.2(2008):93-102.Details. Full text
- "Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness."Assessment13.1(2006):27-45.Details. Full text
- "Single-subject research designs for optometry."American journal of optometry and physiological optics62.8(1985):516-22.Details.
- "Immediate Loading of Implants in the Edentulous Maxilla with a Fixed Provisional Restoration without Bone Augmentation: A Report on 5-Year Outcomes Data Obtained from a Prospective Clinical Trial."The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants31.5(1969):1164-70.Details. Full text
- "Three-year follow-up of immediately loaded implants in the edentulous atrophic maxilla: a study in patients with poor bone quantity and quality."The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants29.3(1969):642-9.Details. Full text
- "Immediate Loading of Tilted and Axial Posterior Implants in the Edentulous Maxillary Arch: A Retrospective Comparison of 5-Year Outcomes."The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants33.2(1969):433-438.Details. Full text
- "Endovascular Stent Placement for Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Access Stenosis."International journal of vascular medicine2015.(0):971202.Details. Full text
- "The rewarding nature of provocation-focused rumination in women with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary fMRI investigation."Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation5.(0):1.Details. Full text
- "Self-focused attention and mechanisms of change in mindfulness-based treatment."Cognitive behaviour therapy38 Suppl 1.(0):15-20.Details. Full text