Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features

ISBN-13: 9781138643208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 178 str.

Rebecca Crane

Opis

This new edition of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features (MBCT) provides a concise, straightforward overview of MBCT, fully updated to include recent developments. The training process underpinning MBCT is based on mindfulness meditation practice and invites a new orientation towards internal experience as it arises - one that is characterised by acceptance and compassion. The approach supports a recognition that even though difficulty is an intrinsic part of life, it is possible to work with it in new ways. The book provides a basis for understanding the key theoretical and practical features of MBCT and retains its accessible and easy-to-use format that made the first edition so popular, with 30 distinctive features that characterise the approach. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features will be essential reading for professionals and trainees in the field. It is an appealing read for both experienced practitioners and newcomers with an interest in MBCT.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Permission acknowledgements Foreword by Mark Williams  Introduction  Abbreviations used  Part 1: THE DISTINCTIVE THEORETICAL FEATURES OF MBCT  1. An integration of mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioural therapy  2. Underpinned by the cognitive theory of vulnerability to depression  3. Learning skills to reduce the risk of depressive relapse  4. Modes of mind: doing   5. Modes of mind: being  6. Automatic pilot and conscious awareness  7. Thinking and sensing  8. Mental time travel and present moment focus  9. Reacting and responding to experience: avoidance and approach  10. Needing things to be different and allowing things to be as they are  11. Ways of approaching and welcoming what is  12. Seeing thoughts as real and seeing them as mental events  13. Origins of mindfulness  14. Working with general and specific vulnerability  15. The MBCT evidence base  Part 2: THE DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF MBCT  16. Course content and structure  17. Session themes  18. Assessment and orientation  19. Eating a raisin with awareness  20. Body scan practice  21. Mindful movement practice  22. Sitting meditation practice  23. The Three-Minute Breathing Space  24. The importance of home practice  25. Mindfulness practice in everyday life  26. Pleasant and unpleasant experiences  27. Cognitive behavioural curriculum elements  28. Investigating experience  29. The MBCT group learning environment  30. Teaching through embodiment  Further resources  Index

O autorze

Dr Rebecca Crane is an MBCT teacher and trainer and directs the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, School of Psychology, Bangor University, UK.