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Sarah Bowen

Sarah Bowen PhD, BA

Psychology
Forest Grove, Oregon, United States of America

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Sarah Bowen, PhD is currently a research scientist at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. Both her clinical work and research focus on mindfulness-based interventions for relapse prevention, with a specific focus on mechanisms of change, including negative affect, thought suppression and craving.

She has authored several articles and chapters on this and related topics, is a co-author of the Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician’s Guide, and has served as an investigator several related grants. Dr. Bowen has led several MBRP training’s in the U.S. and Canada, and has facilitated and supervised MBRP groups in both private and county treatment agencies, and at the VA Medical Center in Seattle. She is particularly interested in the application of mindfulness-based work to dual-diagnosis populations.
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