Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

TLDR: In this article, the authors present an eight-session program on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression, focusing on the challenge of depression and its effect on the patient's life.

Abstract: Introduction I. The Challenge of Depression 1. Depression Casts a Long Shadow 2. Why Do People Who Have Recovered from Depression Relapse? 3. Developing Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy II. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy 4. Doing and Being 5. The Eight-Session Program: How and Why 6. The Preclass Participant Interview 7. Awareness and Automatic Pilot: Session 1 8. Kindness and Self-Compassion in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy 9. Living in Our Heads: Session 2 10. Gathering the Scattered Mind: Session 3 11. Recognizing Aversion: Session 4 12. Inquiring into Practice and Practicing Inquiry 13. Allowing/Letting Be: Session 5 14. Thoughts Are Not Facts: Session 6 15. A Day of Mindful Practice 16. ""How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?"": Session 7 17. Maintaining and Extending New Learning: Session 8 18. Reprise: The 3-Minute Breathing Space as the Spine of the Program III. Evaluation and Dissemination 19. Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Work? 20. How Does Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Achieve Its Effects? 21. Moving the Program Off the Page and into the Clinic: Supports for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Instructors and Their Patients Epilogue Audio Downloads 1. Welcome and Introduction (0:30) 2. Raisin Exercise (9:13) 3. Body Scan (37:47) 4. 10-Minute Sitting Meditation--Mindfulness of the Breath (11:20) 5. Mindful Movement--Formal Practice (38:25) 6. Stretch and Breath Meditation (40:41) 7. Mindful Walking (32:24) 8. 3-Minute Breathing Space--Regular Version (4:08) 9. 3-Minute Breathing Space--Responsive Version (4:58) 10. 20-Minute Sitting Meditation (20:32) 11. Sitting Meditation (36:46) 12. Working with Difficulty Meditation (24:08) 13. Bells at 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes, and 30 Minutes (30:32)