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 readers 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
| Acknowledgments |
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| About the Companion Website |
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| Some Opening Words |
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| Starting Out |
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| 1 Intention |
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Experience of Cancer - Diagnosis |
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| 2 Coming Back |
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Experience of Cancer - Treatment |
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Personal Story - Caroline |
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| 3 Turning Towards |
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Experience of Cancer - Remission/Living with Uncertainty |
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| 4 Kindness |
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Experience of Cancer - Recurrence |
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| 5 Completing And Continuing |
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| 6 Connecting To Our Common Humanity |
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| Appendices |
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1 Cancer And Mindfulness-Based Approaches |
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3 The 'Map' of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer |
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| Bibliography |
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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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