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Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Relapse Prophylaxis in Mood Disorders

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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How Does Mindfulness Differ from Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

In traditional cognitive behavior therapy, you are taught to try to answer back to negative thoughts. This can be challenging because if you have been depressed for a long time you tend to believe the negative thoughts. With mindfulness, you learn a different approach.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)