%0 Journal Article %T Mindfulness (atenci車n plena): concepto y teor赤a Mindfulness: Concept and Theory %A Agust赤n Moˋivas %A Gustavo Garc赤a-Diex %A Rafael Garc赤a-de-Silva %J Portularia : Revista de Trabajo Social %D 2012 %I %R 10.5218/prts.2012.0009 %X Mindfulness ('atenci車n plena' o consciencia plena') tom車 notoriedad en occidente con Kabat Zinn (Universidad de Massachusetts) al aplicarlo al estr谷s mediante el programa Mindfulness Basado en la Reducci車n del Estr谷s (MBSR), en 1978; desde entonces, las investigaciones y campos de aplicaci車n han seguido una progresi車n geom谷trica y el MBSR se aplica, contando solo en USA, en m芍s de doscientos cincuenta hospitales. Dada la implantaci車n del trabajo social cl赤nico, en Norteam谷rica, su aplicaci車n fue inmediata, import芍ndose desde el escenario cl赤nico a los escenarios donde se interviene con individuos, familias, grupos y comunidades. Mindfulness ha dado lugar a m迆ltiples publicaciones bajo el paraguas 'Mindfulness and Social Work'. En este art赤culo se da cuenta: del cuerpo te車rico que conforma "mindfulness", de sus diferentes programas m芍steres en universidades anglosajonas y europeas -en el contexto de las terapias de tercera generaci車n-, de la investigaci車n actual, incluidas las neurociencias, dada la evidencia cient赤fica de los cambios cerebrales que produce su pr芍ctica y, finalmente, de su aplicaci車n al Trabajo Social siguiendo los trabajos de Hick y otros. Mindfulness (full attention, full consciousness) became a well-known concept in western countries with Kabat-Zinn (University of Massachusetts), when it was put into practice through his Mindfulness Based on Stress-Reduction program (MBSR) in 1978. Since then, researches and applied fields have followed a geometric progression and the MBSR is being applied in more than two hundred and fifty hospitals only in the USA. Once Clinical Social Work was established in the USA, it was immediately put into practice and transferred from clinical to intervention scenarios with individuals, families, groups and communities. Mindfulness has originated plenty of literature under the general topic "Mindfulness and Social Work". This paper highlights: the theorical framework which makes 'mindfulness' up, its different master programs in Anglo-Saxon and European Universities -in the context of third generation therapeutics-, current researches- including Neurosciences because of the scientific evidence of the brain changes which its practice produces-, and, finally, its application to Social Work, following papers/investigations of Hick and others. %U http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/revistas/portularia/index.php?CDer=1&NR=9&volumen=12&top=12&NArticulo=1123