Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features (CBT Distinctive Features)
Rebecca Crane
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN: 0415445027
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is increasingly used in therapeutic practice. It encourages clients to process experience without judgement as it arises, helping them to change their relationship with challenging thoughts and feelings, and accept that, even though difficult things may happen, it is possible to work with these in new ways.
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.
The investigation is asking whether the metacognitive skills for working with negative affect that patients learn in MBCT change the neural processing of sad moods. Current research and development work is in progress investigating the adaptation and application of MBCT in other clinical arenas such as chronic fatigue syndrome (Surawy, Roberts, & Silver, 2005); oncology (Ingram, 2005); treatment resistant depression (Kenny & Williams, 2007); between episode functioning for people with bi-polar
clarifying the distinctive features of each approach. The series editor, Windy Dryden, successfully brings together experts from each discipline to summarise the 30 main aspects of their approach divided into theoretical and practical features. The CBT Distinctive Features Series will be essential reading for psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists of all orientations who want to learn more about the range of new and developing cognitive-behavioural approaches. Titles in the series:
theme of the ®rst session: ``automatic pilot''. Often we eat completely beyond our awareness and it is so unusual to pay this level of attention to what we eat. This opens up awareness of how true this can be for many of the moments of our lives. Noticing how mindful attention can ``reveal '' and ``transform'' Participants discover through the raisin practice that intentionally bringing awareness to something, in a different way to usual, changes the nature of the experience: I usually eat
practices, and a practical vehicle for applying the programme learning to dif®culties as they arise. It brings the possibility of inquiring into the nature of the patterns of the mind within the fabric of everyday life when the chance of the mind operating in automatic pilot is high. Often the continuity of awareness within the body is lost in daily life and the 3MBS offers an opportunity to reconnect with this important source of information about oneself. Mindfulness practice teaches us that
DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF MBCT 28 Investigating experience Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. (Jung24) When we practice mindfulness we are investigating and inquiring into the nature of our mind. The participatory dialogue between the participants and the teacher in a mindfulness-based course is an interactive expression of this same inquiry process. This dialogue between participants and teacher follows each