Xinghua Liu, the founder of MIED, tenured associate professor. He is associate dean of School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (SPCS), and director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, and director of Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, SPCS in Peking University presently. He is a qualified teacher of MBSR and certified trainer of UP. He is the associate editor of the Mindfulness journal. He is founder of Division of Mindfulness Psychology, Chinese Psychological Society. He has published 30 SSCI articles and 36 CSSCI articles as a corresponding or first author since 2007.

Introduction of Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress (MIED)

Emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety and depression disorders), is the most common psychological disorders across different countries. In order to develop more efficient intervention for these disorders and sub-health state, Xinghua Liu developed the Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress (MIED) program, based on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders (UP). Compared to other mindfulness-based interventions, the MIED program addresses the psychopathological mechanisms underlying emotional disorders, named as transdiagnostic psychopathological diamond model, proposed by Liu, and includes four key intervention strategies accordingly. These strategies include 1) engage in life; 2) adjust distress tolerance; 3) adjust emotional behaviors; 4) improve cognitive flexibility. All of these strategies are blended into the practices and tasks of the MIED program in a stepwise approach. The MIED program can be delivered in a group (8 weeks group-based MIED program) with guidance from a qualified teacher or delivered over the internet in a self-help version (49 days iMIED program), which has helped more than 30,000 people from 2020. In this speech, Dr. Liu will introduce MIED briefly and the preliminary research evidence of its effectiveness.