Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features (CBT Distinctive Features)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Abbreviations used......Page 24
Part 1 THE DISTINCTIVE THEORETICAL FEATURES OF MBCT......Page 26
1 An integration of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy......Page 28
2 Underpinned by the cognitive theory of vulnerability to depression......Page 34
3 Learning skills to reduce the risk of depressive relapse......Page 40
4 The significance of automatic pilot......Page 46
5 Modes of mind: "doing"......Page 52
6 Doing mode in action: the effects of rumination......Page 56
7 Doing mode in action: the effects of experiential avoidance......Page 60
8 Reacting and responding to experience: avoidance and approach......Page 64
9 Modes of mind: "being"......Page 68
10 Body sensations–a door into the present......Page 74
11 Ways of approaching and welcoming what is......Page 78
12 Developing a new relationship with experience......Page 84
13 Awareness as a container of our experience......Page 90
14 Working with general and specific vulnerability......Page 94
15 The MBCT evidence base......Page 98
Part 2 THE DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF MBCT......Page 104
16 Course content and structure......Page 106
17 Session themes......Page 118
18 Assessment and orientation......Page 122
19 Eating a raisin with awareness......Page 126
20 Body scan practice......Page 130
21 Mindful movement practice......Page 134
22 Sitting meditation practice......Page 140
23 The Three Minute Breathing Space......Page 144
24 The importance of home practice......Page 150
25 Mindfulness practice in everyday life......Page 154
26 Pleasant and unpleasant experiences......Page 158
27 Cognitive behavioural curriculum elements......Page 162
28 Investigating experience......Page 168
29 The MBCT learning environment......Page 174
30 Teaching through embodiment......Page 180
Further resources......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 194
Index......Page 198