Mindfulness - A Kindly Approach to Being With Cancer

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

List 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
 
About the Author

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.

Summary

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.

Report

"A diagnosis of cancer can produce waves of shock, confusion and despair affecting not only the sufferer, but also family and close friends. Where can you turn? What resources can you find right now that will ease the pain? From start to finish, trish bartley provides the best sort of support for anyone suffering such anguish. Here is not only something to read, but something to practice."
-Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford, UK
 
"How do we skillfully meet suffering with kindness? Trish has distilled her years of experience iinto this wonderfully clear and accessible guide to mindfulness. An embodiment of compassion and wisdom, and an inspiring read."
-Rebecca Crane, Director, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, ULK
 
"This is a lovely book - wise, compassionate, and very practical. Here is a wonderful friendly guide to tried and tested ways to live more fully and kindly with cancer."
-John Teasdale, Research Scientist, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK -John Teasdale, Research Scientist, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK"A diagnosis of cancer can produce waves of shock, confusion and despair affecting not only the sufferer, but also family and close friends. Where can you turn? What resources can you find right now that will ease the pain? From start to finish, Trish Bartley provides the best sort of support for anyone suffering such anguish. Here is not only something to read, but something to practice." -Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, "A diagnosis of cancer can produce waves of shock, confusion and despair affecting not only the sufferer, but also family and close friends. Where can you turn? What resources can you find right now that will ease the pain? From start to finish, Trish Bartley provides the best sort of support for anyone suffering such anguish. Here is not only something to read, but something to practice." -Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, Oxford Mindfulness Centre,

Product details

• Authors: T Bartley, Trish Bartley, Trish T. Bartley, Bartley Trish
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781118926284
• ISBN: 978-1-118-92628-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Psychologie, Klinische Psychologie, Achtsamkeit, Psychology, Clinical psychology, KREBS (MEDIZIN)