Mindfulness

A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-118-92627-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartley, Trish

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.