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mindfulness based cognitive therapy - mbct
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
MBCT is an integration of MBSR with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) developed and initially researched through a three site randomised control trial. It was developed to teach recovered and recurrently depressed participants skills to enable them to become aware of and step back from habitual automatic unhelpful cognitive patterns. The pattern of the mind which makes people vulnerable to depressive relapse is rumination, in which the mind repetitively reruns negative thoughts. The core skill that MBCT is teaching is to intentionally shift mental gears.
There is little emphasis in MBCT, as in the conventional CBT on changing belief in the content of thoughts. The focus is on systematic training through mindfulness meditation practices to become more aware, moment by moment of physical sensations and of thoughts and feelings. By becoming more aware of physical sensations, thoughts and feelings one can begin to see them as aspects of experience which move through our awareness and which are not necessarily the reality in any given moment.
Research has shown that in addition to being an effective therapy for recurrent depression, MBCT is also effective in relation to treating stress, anxiety, chronic fatigue and pain management and for generally improving physical and mental health and wellbeing.
MBCT was developed and researched in the UK primarily by Professor Mark Williams, Dr. Zindel Segal and Dr. John Teasdale at Bangor University, North Wales, and Oxford University.
MBCT is approved by NICE (The Institute of Clinical Excellence)
More information about the research on MBCT can be found at:
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy in Wirral
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