Research Catalog

Title

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy : distinctive features / Rebecca Crane.

Author

Crane, Rebecca, 1964-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & francis Group, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 176 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"This book provides a basis for understanding the key theoretical and practical features of MBCT. Focusing on a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy programme that is offered in a group context to those who are vulnerable to depressive relapses, the text is divided into 30 distinctive features that characterise the approach. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features provides a concise, straightforward summary for professionals and trainees in the field. Its easy-to-use format will appeal to both experienced practitioners and newcomers with an interest in MBCT."--

Series Statement

CBT distinctive features series

Uniform Title

CBT distinctive features series

Subject

• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• Mind and body therapies
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy > methods
• Depressive Disorder > therapy
• Mind-Body Therapies
• Sciences cognitives
• Thérapeutique
• Psychologie
• Mind and body therapies
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Note

• Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Mark Williams -- Distinctive Theoretical Features of MBCT. Integration of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ; Underpinned by the cognitive theory of vulnerability to depression ; Learning skills to reduce the risk of depressive relapse ; The significance of automatic pilot ; Modes of mind: "doing" ; Doing mode in action: the effects of rumination ; Doing mode in action: the effects of experiential avoidance ; Reacting and responding to experience: avoidance and approach ; Modes of mind: "being" ; Body sensations--a door into the present ; Ways of approaching and welcoming what is ; Developing a new relationship with experience ; Awareness as a container of our experience ; Working with general and specific vulnerability ; The MBCT evidence base -- Distinctive Practical Features of MBCT. Course content and structure ; Session themes ; Assessment and orientation ; Eating a raisin with awareness ; Body scan practice ; Mindful movement practice ; Sitting meditation practice ; The Three Minute Breathing Space ; The importance of home practice ; Mindfulness practice in everyday life ; Pleasant and unpleasant experiences ; Cognitive behavioural curriculum elements ; Investigating experience ; The MBCT learning environment ; Teaching through embodiment.

ISBN

• 9780415445016
• 0415445019
• 9780415445023
• 0415445027
• 9786611754181
• 6611754180

LCCN

2008017140

OCLC

• ocn213446236
• 213446236
• SCSB-9786304

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library