Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Innovative Applications

✍ Scribed by Stuart J. Eisendrath (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together a cutting-edge selection of the most current applications of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), giving clinicians as well as researchers a concise guide to current and future directions. Each chapter begins with in illustrative case study to give readers an example of how MBCT would be used in the clinical setting, followed by an overview of the condition, the theoretical rationale for using MBCT, modifications of MBCT for that disorder, evidence for MBCT use. Chapters also discuss practical considerations of MBCT, including patient selection, home practice, group size, format, and facilitator training.
Written by some of the world’s leading physicians using MBCT, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Innovative Applications is of great value to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and therapists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Distance Delivery of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy....Pages 7-18
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Insomnia....Pages 19-29
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Depression Symptoms After Traumatic Brain Injury....Pages 31-45
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Women with Breast and Gynecologic Cancers....Pages 47-63
The Application of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain....Pages 65-74
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Medically Unexplained Symptoms....Pages 75-81
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy application for People Living with Chronic Disease: the case of HIV....Pages 83-103
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety or Hypochondriasis....Pages 105-111
Self-Help Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy....Pages 113-121
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Couples....Pages 123-131
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression....Pages 133-144
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder....Pages 145-154
The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder....Pages 155-161
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder....Pages 163-191
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Patients with Suicidal Ideation and Behavior....Pages 193-201
Mindfulness Intervention for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Theory and Action Mechanisms....Pages 203-213
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Caregivers of Cancer Survivors....Pages 215-227
Mindfulness-Based Interventions as School-Based Mental Health Promoting Programs....Pages 229-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-244

✦ Subjects

Psychiatry; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; General Practice / Family Medicine