To request review copies [email protected] Back to contents 158 Psychology Mindfulness A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer Trish Bartley ISBN: 978-1-118-92628-4 | Nov 2016 | 240PP For many people, a diagnosis of cancer brings with it levels of distress and anxiety that can be as difficult to manage as the disease itself. Mindfulness is a therapeutic intervention that has been found to be effective in helping people with cancer develop tools and skills to manage their experience of cancer, increase their sense of well-being and cultivate a positive sense of resourcefulness. Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers a wealth of practical, compassionate teachings and practices to support people at all stages of cancer and treatment. Tracing the four movements that underpin this mindfulness-based approach (Intention, Coming Back, Turning Towards, and Kindness), Bartley introduces a variety of creative practices and activities tailored to respond to specific stages of an experience of cancer — such as diagnosis, experiencing recurrence, treatment as practice, and living with uncertainty. Offering inspirational advice and awareness exercises rooted in time-tested research and clinical practice, this is an invaluable resource for all those wishing to live more kindly and fulfilling lives when faced with 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 •• 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 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.
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