This comprehensive handbook presents a Zen account of fundamental and important dimensions of
daily living. It explores how Zen teachings inform a range of key topics across the field of
behavioral health and discuss the many uses of meditation and mindfulness practice in
therapeutic contexts especially within cognitive-behavioral therapies. Chapters outline key
Zen constructs of self and body desire and acceptance and apply these constructs to Western
frameworks of health pathology meaning-making and healing. An interdisciplinary panel of
experts including a number of Zen masters who have achieved the designation of roshi examines
intellectual tensions among Zen mindfulness and psychotherapy such as concepts of
rationality modes of language and goals of well-being. The handbook also offers first-person
practitioner accounts of living Zen in everyday life and using its teachings in varied practice
settings. Topics featured in the Handbook include: . Zen practices in jails.. Zen koans and
parables.. A Zen account of desire and attachment.. Adaptation of Zen to behavioral
healthcare.. Zen mindfulness and their relationship to cognitive behavioral therapy. . The
application of Zen practices and principles for survivors of trauma and violence. The Handbook
of Zen Mindfulness and Behavioral Health is a must-have resource for researchers clinicians
professionals and graduate students in clinical psychology public health cultural studies
language philosophy behavioral medicine and Buddhism and religious studies.
