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- Title
Mindfulness Meditation in the Long-Term Management of Mood Disorders: Contributions by Canadian Researchers.
- Authors
Shamblaw, Amanda L.; Segal, Zindel
- Abstract
Longitudinal evidence indicates that dysphoria linked reactivation of depressive thinking styles--cognitive reactivity--is a significant predictor of depressive relapse in people who have recovered from depression (Segal et al., 2006). Using this as a framework, Canadian researcher Zindel Segal et al. (2002, 2013) developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an eight session, relapse prevention treatment that targets cognitive reactivity via training in mindfulness meditation. In Part 1 of this article, we describe the development and session structure of MBCT, followed by a review of empirical support and mechanisms of MBCT change, and finally a note on dissemination through web-based modalities. In Part 2, we review the work of other Canadian researchers who have contributed to the field of mindfulness as it relates to depression, including a focus on dispositional mindfulness, perinatal depression, oncology, anxiety and related disorders, self-regulation in children and adolescence, and syntheses of mindfulness-based literature. We conclude with a brief discussion of future research required to advance our understanding of psychological skills that support long-term prophylaxis in mood disorders.
- Subjects
CANADA; PREVENTION of mental depression; ANXIETY prevention; DISEASE relapse prevention; MINDFULNESS; MEDITATION; SELF-management (Psychology); AFFECTIVE disorders; COGNITIVE therapy
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 2022, Vol 54, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
0008-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/cbs0000286