Abnormal psychology for depression: From perspectives of relapse prevention and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
Yoshinori Ito, Akira Hasegawa, Munenaga Koda
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review |
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| Topics | Depression Meditation |
| Key findings | The review argues that relapse prevention is the most important factor in depression care and surveys abnormal psychology research on this topic. It presents Teasdale's emotional processing theory as foundational, reviews evidence for it and for MBCT's effects and mechanisms, and highlights the recent work of Watkins and Joormann. It proposes that the perspective required to understand mindfulness also benefits the study of emotion regulation. |
Abstract
The aim of this article was to review the researches on abnormal psychology for depression, and to figure out how to develop the researches in the future. Recently, depression has become a major social problem. Especially, relapse prevention is the most important factor of the depression care. There, we reviewed the researches on abnormal psychology referring the relapse prevention of depression by focusing on the researchers who are active on this field. The main topics of the present article were below: the emotional processing theory by John D. Teasdale, the first person who has focused on the relapse prevention of depression, 2) the researches that substantiate the theory, and the distinguishing phenomenon related to the relapse, 3) the researches on the effect and mechanism of MBCT that is developed for the relapse prevention of depression, and 4) the research trend of Ed Watkins and Jutta Joormann who lead the recent growth of the abnormal psychology on the depression, and the relations between their theory and the MBCT. At the last, the future directions of the researches on the relapse prevention on depression were discussed. Furthermore, it was noted that the perspective which was necessary to understand the mindfulness was beneficial when think of emotion regulation too.
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| Sudarshan Kriya Yogic Breathing in the Treatment of Stress, Anxiety, and Depression: Part II—Clinical Applications and Guidelines | 2005 | Review |
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