Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer

by Trish Bartley

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118926284
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/14/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

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

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