By Zindel Segal, Le‐Anh Dinh‐Williams — 2016
Mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was designed to pre-empt dysfunctional patterns by teaching formerly depressed patients how to be more aware of negative thoughts and feelings at times of potential relapse/recurrence, and to respond to those thoughts and feelings in ways that allow them to disengage from treating them as facts or identifying them with one's sense of self‐worth.
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