FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry

Treatment-resistant Depressed Patients Show a Good Response to Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy

FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry 2010 Maura Kenny, J. Mark G. Williams 1 citation

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a class-based programme designed for use in the prevention of relapse of major depression. Its aim is to teach participants to disengage from those cognitive processes that may render them vulnerable to future episodes. These same cognitive processes are also known to maintain depression once established, hence a clinical audit was conducted to...