Grand Rounds with Dr. Sarah Bowen | “A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Understanding and Treating Addictive Behaviors”

Sarah Bowen, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. She is an Associate Professor at Pacific University, in Portland, OR, and affiliate research faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her doctoral training under the mentorship of Dr. Alan Marlatt at University of Washington. Dr. Bowen’s research focuses primarily on mindfulness-based therapies for relapse prevention, with specific focus on mechanisms of change, including negative affect, thought suppression and craving. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on this and related topics (see publications), and is lead au​thor of the Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician’s Guide. Dr. Bowen has facilitated MBRP groups in private and county treatment agencies, in criminal justice institutions, and at the VA Medical Center, and offers trainings to researchers and clinicians in the U.S., Europe, and Central America. She is particularly interested in the application of mindfulness-based work to dual-diagnosis and under-served populations.