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Overview

Ruth A. Baer is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of psychology. Their research focuses significantly on mindfulness and compassion interventions, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology and related subfields.

Baer's scholarly work covers diverse topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional interests encompass child therapy and development, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, early childhood education and development, as well as music therapy and health.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • Frequency of Self-reported Unpleasant Events and Harm in a Mindfulness-Based Program in Two General Population Samples (2020) Mindfulness
  • Universal Mindfulness Training in Schools for Adolescents: a Scoping Review and Conceptual Model of Moderators, Mediators, and Implementation Factors (2022) Prevention Science
  • An experimental investigation of the effects of self-criticism and self-compassion on implicit associations with non-suicidal self-injury (2021) Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Defining Mindfulness: A Review of Existing Definitions and Suggested Refinements (2025) Mindfulness
  • Implementing the Mindfulness-Based Interventions; Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC) in Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training (2021) Global Advances in Health and Medicine

Research dissemination frequently appears in several venues, with a concentration in the journal Mindfulness. Other venues include Assessment, PsycTESTS Dataset, UNC Libraries, and Prevention Science.

Baer has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, indicating ongoing scholarly connections. Frequent collaborators include Willem Kuyken, Jesús Montero-Marín, Laura Taylor, Clara Strauss, and Rebecca Crane.

Their work embodies an integration of clinical and experimental psychology principles applied to mindfulness and broader psychosocial development, supporting research aimed at understanding processes and outcomes related to mindfulness-based interventions across various populations and settings.

Best Publications

  • Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness

    Ruth A. Baer;Gregory T. Smith;Jaclyn Hopkins;Jennifer Krietemeyer

  • Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

    Ruth A. Baer

  • Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance.

    Frank W. Bond;Steven C. Hayes;Ruth A. Baer;Kenneth M. Carpenter

  • Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples.

    Ruth A. Baer;Gregory T. Smith;Emily Lykins;Daniel Button

  • Assessment of mindfulness by self-report: the Kentucky inventory of mindfulness skills.

    Ruth A. Baer;Gregory T. Smith;Kristin B. Allen

  • Relationships between mindfulness practice and levels of mindfulness, medical and psychological symptoms and well-being in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program

    James Carmody;Ruth A. Baer

  • Contemplating Mindfulness at Work An Integrative Review

    Darren J. Good;Christopher J. Lyddy;Theresa M. Glomb;Joyce E. Bono

  • Psychometric properties of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in depressed adults and development of a short form.

    Ernst Bohlmeijer;Peter M. ten Klooster;Martine Fledderus;Martine M. Veehof

  • What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures

    Clara Strauss;Clara Strauss;Billie Lever Taylor;Jenny Gu;Willem Kuyken

  • Mindfulness-based treatment approaches : clinician's guide to evidence base and applications

    Ruth A. Baer

  • Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM).

    Laurie A. Greco;Ruth A. Baer;Gregory T. Smith

  • An empirical study of the mechanisms of mindfulness in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program.

    James Carmody;Ruth A. Baer;Emily L. B. Lykins;Nicholas Olendzki

  • Developmental norms for the Wisconsin Card Sorting test.

    Gordon J. Chelune;Ruth A. Baer

  • How long does a mindfulness-based stress reduction program need to be? A review of class contact hours and effect sizes for psychological distress.

    James Carmody;Ruth A. Baer

  • Weekly Change in Mindfulness and Perceived Stress in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program

    Ruth A. Baer;James Carmody;Matthew Hunsinger

  • Psychological Inflexibility in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Evaluation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth.

    Laurie A. Greco;Warren Lambert;Ruth A. Baer

  • Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators

    Ruth A. Baer;Emily L.B. Lykins;Jessica R. Peters

  • Psychological functioning in a sample of long-term practitioners of mindfulness meditation.

    Emily L. B. Lykins;Ruth A. Baer

  • Mindfulness and Acceptance in the Treatment of Disordered Eating

    Ruth A. Baer;Sarah Fischer;Debra B. Huss

  • Relationships between mindfulness, self-control, and psychological functioning

    Stephanie L. Bowlin;Ruth A. Baer

  • Assessment of mindfulness by self-report.

    Ruth Baer

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. R. Berry
David T. R. Berry University of Kentucky
Gregory T. Smith
Gregory T. Smith University of Kentucky
Clara Strauss
Clara Strauss University of Sussex
Catherine Crane
Catherine Crane University of Oxford
Willem Kuyken
Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
Kate Cavanagh
Kate Cavanagh University of Sussex
Ronald L. Blount
Ronald L. Blount University of Georgia
Shannon Sauer-Zavala
Shannon Sauer-Zavala University of Kentucky
Charles R. Carlson
Charles R. Carlson University of Kentucky
Jesús Montero-Marín
Jesús Montero-Marín University of Oxford

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