Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research

Oleg N. Medvedev, PhD , is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research spans mindfulness-based interventions, affective disorders, schizophrenia, stroke, and dementia, employing advanced methodological approaches including Generalizability Theory, Rasch measurement models, network analyses, AI and machine learning. He has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 book chapters and is co-author of  Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments  and co-editor of  International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment . Oleg is joint Editor-in-Chief of two international journals:  Mindfulness  and  Journal of Psychology and AI.

Chris Krägeloh, PhD , is a Professor of Psychology at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research spans health outcome measurement, psychosocial aspects of robotics and AI, and empirical and conceptual studies in mindfulness. He has authored over 150 journal articles and several books, including  Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research . Apart from the  Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research , he is also a co-editor of another major reference work on assessment, the  International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment . Chris serves as joint Editor-in-Chief of  Mindfulness , the leading journal in the field, and has recently co-launched a new journal,  Journal of Psychology & AI .

Richard Siegert, PhD , is Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Auckland University of Technology. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in corrections, mental health, private practice and neurology. He lectured in Psychology at VUW 1991-2002 where he was Director of the Clinical Psychology programme for six years. He was head of the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit at the University of Otago (Wellington) 2002 -2007 before teaching in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation at King’s College London from 2007 – 2012. With almost 200 journal articles and several books to his name, Richard’s primary research interests focus on mindfulness, measurement and outcomes in mental health, rehabilitation and palliative care. He has been an active mindfulness researcher since 2014 with a special interest in mindfulness and neurological rehabilitation.

Nirbhay N. Singh, PhD , is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA. His research interests include mindfulness, behavioral treatment for individuals with disabilities, and assistive technology for supporting individuals with severe, profound, and multiple disabilities. Dr. Singh has served as the founding editor of four international journals, including Mindfulness , and currently serves as the editor of three Springer book series:  Mindfulness in Behavioral Health ,  Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health , and  Children and Families . A prolific researcher, he has over 800 publications, including 30 books, 125 book chapters, and more than 650 peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition, he is the Editor-in-chief of the  Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices .