Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in treatment of chronic depression

Abstract

During the last decades in the foreign literature indicates the growing interest in the study of the concept of “mindfulness” as a psychological construct and as a form of psychotherapeutic intervention for the prevention and treatment of chronic depression. The peculiarities of thinking of patients with chronic depression, which are aimed at correcting techniques Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), or cognitive therapy based on “awareness”. On the basis of foreign studies described positive psychological effects of “awareness”, including an increase in subjective well-being, cognitive decline and emotional reactivity, and putative mechanisms of therapeutic action МВСТ, provides data on the effectiveness of this approach in the treatment of chronic depression and other disorders.