Mark Williams & Melanie Fennell 
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide 
Working with People at Risk of Suicide

Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this book describes how to adapt mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for participants who struggle with recurrent suicidal thoughts and impulses. Clinicians and mindfulness teachers are presented with a comprehensive framework for understanding suicidality and its underlying vulnerabilities. The preliminary intake interview and each of the eight group mindfulness sessions of MBCT are discussed in detail, highlighting issues that need to be taken into account with highly vulnerable people. Assessment guidelines are provided and strategies for safely teaching core mindfulness practices are illustrated with extensive case examples. The book also discusses how to develop the required mindfulness teacher skills and competencies. Purchasers get access to a companion website featuring downloadable audio recordings of the guided mindfulness practices, narrated by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale. (Published in hardcover as
Mindfulness and the Transformation of Despair: Working with People at Risk of Suicide.)



See also
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition, by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, the authoritative presentation of MBCT.

Содержание

1. Introduction

I. Theoretical and Research Background

2. The Origins of Despair: An Evolutionary Perspective

3. Why the Idea of Suicide Won’t Let Go

4. How Could Mindfulness Help?: Doing and Being

II. MBCT for Those at Risk of Suicide

5. Assessing Vulnerability to Depression and Suicidality

6. Developing the Preclass Interview: Encouraging Vulnerable Participants to Engage in and Persist with Mindfulness Meditation

7. Session 1: Awareness and Automatic Pilot

8. Session 2: Living in Our Heads

9. Session 3: Gathering the Scattered Mind

10. Session 4: Recognizing Aversion

11. Session 5: Allowing/Letting Be

12. Session 6: Thoughts Are Not Facts

13. Session 7: How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?

14. Session 8: Maintaining and Extending New Learning

15. How Does MBCT Enable Transformation?: Jane’s Story

III. Training Teachers and Defining Competence

16. MBCT Teaching Integrity: Assessing Mindfulness-Based Teaching Skills

17. The Experience of Being an MBCT Teacher

IV. MBCT—The Results

18. Mindfulness on Trial: Does MBCT Help People at Risk of Suicide?

Further Reading and Resources

References

Об авторе

Mark Williams, DPhil, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, having been Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at Oxford from 2003 to 2012 and at Bangor University from 1991 to 2002. He collaborated with John Teasdale and Zindel Segal in developing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to prevent relapse and recurrence in major depression; together, they coauthored
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition (for mental health professionals), as well as the self-help guides
The Mindful Way Workbook and (with Jon Kabat-Zinn)
The Mindful Way through Depression. Dr. Williams is also coauthor of
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with People at Risk of Suicide (for mental health professionals). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Academy. Now retired, he continues to live near Oxford, to teach mindfulness to teachers-in-training across the world, and to explore, with colleagues, how mindfulness might be used in evidence-based public policy.

Melanie Fennell, Ph D, is a Founding Fellow of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, where she is now an Associate Trainer. She is also an Associate Trainer at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. As a research clinician in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, she contributed to the development of evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety disorders, including MBCT. She developed and led the Oxford Diploma in Cognitive Therapy, the Oxford Diploma/MSc in Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies, and (with Mark Williams) the Oxford Master of Studies program in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Fennell is an Honorary Fellow of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and was voted “Most Influential Female UK Cognitive Therapist” by the BABCP’s membership in 2002.

Thorsten Barnhofer, Ph D, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, where he conducts research into the use of mindfulness-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. He has a particular interest in the mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation benefits psychological and neural functioning. Previously, he worked in Mark Williams’s group at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry, where he was involved in research on MBCT for suicidal and chronic depression. A cognitive-behavioral therapist and yoga teacher, Dr. Barnhofer regularly teaches MBCT training workshops and retreats for mental health professionals.

Rebecca Crane, Ph D, MA, Dip Cot, is Director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University in Wales, and has led the development of its training programs since 2001. She previously worked in the mental health field as an occupational therapist and an integrative counselor. Dr. Crane teaches and trains internationally in both MBCT and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and is a certified MBSR teacher with the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is the author of
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features.

Sarah Silverton, Dip Cot, MEd, teaches at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University, Wales. She has extensive experience as an occupational therapist, counselor, and mindfulness teacher and trainer. She is the author of
The Mindfulness Breakthrough.