Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness.
- Adapts Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an approach with a strong evidence base for people with recurrent depression, for the needs and challenges of people with cancer
- Presents the standard 8-week course of MBCT for cancer in a flexible format that is designed to suit each reader’s own particular timescale, context and situation
- Based on more than 15 years of program development and clinical application by the author, and the work and experience of mindfulness teachers in other cancer centres around the world
- Provides specific practices and approaches tailored to support the different phases of a cancer experience – from diagnosis and treatment to living with uncertainty and managing life with cancer
- Features five extended stories from people personally affected by cancer who have used mindfulness-based practices to support them in their own experience of illness, life and treatment
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments ix
About the Companion Website xi
Some Opening Words 3
Starting Out 5
1 Intention 21
Intention Theme 22
The Practices 33
Experience of Cancer – Diagnosis 45
Personal Story – Sarah 55
2 Coming Back 60
Coming Back Theme 61
The Practices 72
Experience of Cancer – Treatment 97
Personal Story – Caroline 112
3 Turning Towards 117
Turning Towards Theme 118
The Practices 131
Experience of Cancer – Remission / Living with Uncertainty 152
Personal Story – Peter 160
4 Kindness 165
Kindness Theme 167
The Practices 176
Experience of Cancer – Recurrence 201
Personal Story – Jane 211
5 Completing And Continuing 217
Personal Story – Helen 234
6 Connecting To Our Common Humanity 240
Some Parting Words 250
Appendices 254
1 Cancer And Mindfulness?]Based Approaches 254
2 Resources 256
3 The ‘Map’ of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer 259
4 Lee’s Soups 261
Bibliography 265
Index 269
About the Author
Sobre o autor
Trish Bartley is a senior teacher at the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice, and honorary lecturer at Bangor University, UK. She also teaches Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer at a regional hospital oncology centre, and has trained and supervised mindfulness teachers from all over the world. She is the author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer (Wiley-Blackwell 2012), which was designed as a handbook for mindfulness-based teachers working with people with cancer.
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