Mindfulness meditation in the long-term management of mood disorders: Contributions by Canadian researchers.

Longitudinal evidence indicates that dysphoria linked reactivation of depressive thinking styles—cognitive reactivity—is a significant predictor of depressive relapse in people who have recovered from depression (Segal et al., 2006). Using this as a framework, Canadian researcher Zindel Segal et al. (2002, 2013) developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an eight session, relapse prevention treatment that targets cognitive reactivity via training in mindfulness meditation. In Part 1 of this article, we describe the development and session structure of MBCT, followed by a review of empirical support and mechanisms of MBCT change, and finally a note on dissemination through web-based modalities. In Part 2, we review the work of other Canadian researchers who have contributed to the field of mindfulness as it relates to depression, including a focus on dispositional mindfulness, perinatal depression, oncology, anxiety and related disorders, self-regulation in children and adolescence, and syntheses of mindfulness-based literature. We conclude with a brief discussion of future research required to advance our understanding of psychological skills that support long-term prophylaxis in mood disorders. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research