Could mindfulness-based cognitive therapy prevent a lifelong recurrent course of depression or anxiety by addressing key mechanisms of vulnerability in high-risk adolescents?
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Ford, Tamsin Jane https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5295-4904
Richardson, Jessica
Wilkinson, Kath
Smith, Patrick
Berry, Vashti
Abstract
We explore the potential of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a skills-based intervention that provides participants with sustainable tools for adaptive responses to stress and negative mood, for the large group of young people with depression or anxiety who only partially or briefly respond to currently available first-line interventions.
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MBCT, Mindfulness, anxiety, depression, young people, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depressive Disorder, Humans, Mindfulness, Recurrence, Risk
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Br J Psychiatry
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0007-1250
1472-1465
1472-1465
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216
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
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