Acknowledgements Permission acknowledgements Foreword by Mark Williams Introduction Abbreviations used
Part1: THE DISTINCTIVE THEORETICAL FEATURES OF MBCT
1. An integration of mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioural therapy
2. Underpinned by the cognitive theory of vulnerability to depression
3. Learning skills to reduce the risk of depressive relapse
4. Modes of mind: doing
5. Modes of mind: being
6. Automatic pilot and conscious awareness
7. Thinking and sensing
8. Mental time travel and present moment focus
9. Reacting and responding to experience: avoidance and approach
10. Needing things to be different and allowing things to be as they are
11. Ways of approaching and welcoming what is
12. Seeing thoughts as real and seeing them as mental events
13. Origins of mindfulness
14. Working with general and specific vulnerability
15. The MBCT evidence base
Part2: THE DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF MBCT
16. Course content and structure
17. Session themes
18. Assessment and orientation
19. Eating a raisin with awareness
20. Body scan practice
21. Mindful movement practice
22. Sitting meditation practice
23. The Three-Minute Breathing Space
24. The importance of home practice
25. Mindfulness practice in everyday life
26. Pleasant and unpleasant experiences
27. Cognitive behavioural curriculum elements
28. Investigating experience
29. The MBCT group learning environment
30. Teaching through embodiment Further resources Index