Valerie Ridgeway

Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2000 John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, James Williams et al. 2,613 citations

This study evaluated mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), a group intervention designed to train recovered recurrently depressed patients to disengage from dysphoria-activated depressogenic thinking that may mediate relapse/recurrence. Recovered recurrently depressed patients (n = 145) were randomized to continue with treatment as usual or, in addition, to receive MBCT....