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A qualitative study of mindfulness-based
cognitive therapy for depression.
| Ui: |
21345723
Fonte: Medline |
| Author: |
Mason
O; Hargreaves I |
| Address: |
School
of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK. |
| Title: |
A
qualitative study of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression. |
| Source: |
Br J
Med Psychol; 74(Pt 2):197-212, 2001 Jun. |
| ISSN: |
0007-1129 |
| Country
of publication: |
England |
| Language: |
eng |
| Abstract: |
Psychotherapeutic
interventions containing training in mindfulness meditation have been
shown to help participants with a variety of somatic and psychological
conditions. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a
meditation-based psychotherapeutic intervention designed to help reduce
the risk of relapse of recurrent depression. There is encouraging early
evidence from multi-centre randomized controlled trials. However, little
is known of the process by which MBCT may bring therapeutic benefits. This
study set out to explore participants' accounts of MBCT in the
mental-health context. Seven participants were interviewed in two phases.
Interview data from four participants were obtained in the weeks following
MBCT. Grounded theory techniques were used to identify several categories
that combine to describe the ways in which mental-health difficulties
arose as well as their experiences of MBCT. Three further participants who
have continued to practise MBCT were interviewed so as to further validate,
elucidate and extend these categories. The theory suggested that the
preconceptions and expectations of therapy are important influences on
later experiences of MBCT. Important areas of therapeutic change ('coming
to terms') were identified, including the development of mindfulness
skills, an attitude of acceptance and 'living in the moment'. The
development of mindfulness skills was seen to hold a key role in the
development of change. Generalization of these skills to everyday life was
seen as important, and several ways in which this happened, including the
use of breathing spaces, were discussed. The study emphasized the role of
continued skills practice for participants' therapeutic gains. In addition,
several of the concepts and categories offered support to cognitive
accounts of mood disorder and the role of MBCT in reducing relapse. |
| Publication
type: |
JOURNAL
ARTICLE |
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