Paul Salmon, PhD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to being a clinical psychologist, he is a certified exercise physiologist, registered yoga teacher, and personal trainer. Dr. Salmon has taught mindfulness meditation and yoga since the 1990s in clinical, academic, military, community fitness, and cancer-specific settings. He has collaborated extensively on clinical research involving mindfulness for fibromyalgia, Parkinson's disease, cancer, and college student stress.
Many mental health clinicians--even those well acquainted with mindfulness--still view physical, body-oriented techniques as outside their scope of practice. In this accessible book, clinical... (more)