Mindfulness - A Kindly Approach to Being withCancer

von Trish Bartley

296 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• ISBN: 9781118926284
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2016
• Größe: 228 x 149 mm
• Verlag: Wiley