Thilo Deckersbach & Britta Hölzel 
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder [EPUB ebook] 

I. An Introduction to MBCT for Bipolar Disorder

1. Bipolar Disorder and Mindfulness

2. An Overview of MBCT for Bipolar Disorder

3. Assessment and Orientation for Prospective Participants

4. Individual Sessions

II. The Group Sessions

Session 1. Welcome in the Moment

Session 2. Welcome Back to the Present

Session 3. The End of the Honeymoon

Session 4. Aversion and Attachment

Session 5. Depression and Acceptance

Session 6. Mania

Session 7. Anger

Session 8. Anxiety

Session 9. Open Awareness and Loving-Kindness

Session 10. Loving-Kindness I

Session 11. Loving-Kindness II

Session 12. Mindfulness Never Ends

III. Reproducible Handouts

Handout 1. Misconceptions about Mindfulness

Handout 2. MBCT for Bipolar Disorder: The Roadmap

Handout 3. Mindfulness Discussion Questions

Handout 4. Yoga Exercise

Handout 5. Mood Diary

Handout 6. Planning Your Mindfulness Practice

Handout 7. Homework Sheet

Handout 8. Worksheet for Warning Signs and Action Plans

Handout 9. Worksheet for Trigger Situations

Handout 10. The Autopilot

Handout 11. Exercise 1 for Session 5

Handout 12. Automatic Negative Thoughts

Handout 13. Cognitive Biases in Depression

Handout 14. Exercise 2 for Session 5

Handout 15. What Can I Do When I Start Feeling Down or Depressed?

Handout 16. List of Troubling Thoughts and Feelings

Handout 17. Why Prevent Mania with Mindfulness?

Handout 18. Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors Associated with Hypomania/Mania

Handout 19. Cognitive Biases in Hypomania/Mania

Handout 20. What Should I Do When I Notice Warning Signs of Mania?

Handout 21. Automatic Anger Thoughts

Handout 22. Anger-Related Cognitive Biases

Handout 23. Exercise for Session 7

Handout 24. Anger Discussion Questions

Handout 25. What Can I Do When I Feel Frustrated, Angry, or Irritable?

Handout 26. Automatic Catastrophic Thoughts

Handout 27. What Can I Do When I Feel Anxious?

Handout 28. Self-Soothing Activities

Handout 29. Mindfulness Never Ends

References

Index

List of Audio Tracks

1. Yoga-Body Scan (23:13)

2. Introduction to the Breathing Space (2:01)

3. Body Scan (17:46)

4. Mindfulness of the Breath (8:15)

5. 3-Minute Breathing Space (3:23)

6. Mindfulness of the Breath and Body (9:48)

7. Mindful Sitting with Sounds and Thoughts (9:37)

8. 3-Minute Breathing Space with Acceptance (3:55)

9. Emotion-Focused Meditation (10:15)

10. Open Awareness Meditation (10:29)

11. Loving-Kindness Meditation (12:48)

Thilo Deckersbach, Ph D, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Director of Psychology in the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and Director of Research in the Division of Neurotherapeutics at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has published over 95 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. His clinical research concentrates on the development of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based treatments for bipolar disorder; his functional neuroimaging research focuses on the interaction of cognitive and emotional processes in bipolar disorder. Dr. Deckersbach has been a dedicated meditation practitioner since 2008.

Britta Hölzel, Ph D, is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Psychology at Charité in Berlin, Germany. She was previously a Research Fellow in the Psychiatric Neuroscience Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hölzel is a mindfulness-based stress reduction instructor and a certified yoga teacher (Sivananda Organization), and has been a dedicated yoga and meditation practitioner since 1997. Dr. Hölzel is a recipient of the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Program, and the Positive Neuroscience award from the John Templeton Foundation, among other honors. Her magnetic resonance imaging research focuses on the effects of mindfulness practice on the functional neuroanatomy of emotion regulation as well as on structural changes in the brain.

Lori Eisner, Ph D is Assistant in Psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Her work has been funded by the Harvard Medical School Kaplan Fellowship and the Clinical Research and Training Program. Her research has focused on the development and implementation of treatments to improve emotion regulation in people with bipolar disorder. She has examined the feasibility of a group treatment for emotion regulation that teaches mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills adapted from dialectical behavior therapy. Dr. Eisner has coauthored four book chapters and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She has been an avid yoga practitioner since 2003.

Sara W. Lazar, Ph D, is Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is a board member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. The focus of Dr. Lazar’s research–which has been covered by numerous news outlets–is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. She has been practicing yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994.

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, and Associate Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been listed among the Best Doctors in North America for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders since 1994, received the National Depression and Manic Depressive Association Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award, and was elected as a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr. Nierenberg’s research focuses on comparative effectiveness of existing treatments and the development of new treatments for mood disorders. He has published over 350 papers and 30 chapters and reviews and is a member of the editorial boards of over 15 journals.