MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY. INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS

1. Introduction
2. Distance Delivery of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
3. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Insomnia
4. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Improves Depression Symptoms After Traumatic Brain Injury
5. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Women with Breast and Gynecologic Cancers
6. The Application of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain
7. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Medically Unexplained Symptoms
8. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy application for People Living with Chronic Disease: the case of HIV
9. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Severe Health Anxiety or Hypochondriasis
10. Self-Help Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
11. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Couples
12. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression
13. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
14. The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder
15. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
16. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Patients with Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
17. Mindfulness Intervention for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Theory and Action Mechanisms
18. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Caregivers of Cancer Survivors
19. Mindfulness-Based Interventions as School-Based Mental Health Promoting Programs

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.

Features
• Explores MBCT applications for both medical and psychiatric conditions
• Each chapter begins with an illustrative case study
• Chapters detail the evidence behind the application of MBCT for each specific condition

Author
Stuart J. Eisendrath, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Director of the UCSF Depression Center University of California San Francisco 401 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA USA