MBCT
Meaning Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
What is MBCT?
10-12 participants
What is the recommended number of participants for an MBCT group?
Used to challenge and dispute thoughts.
What is Socratic Dialogue?
The raisin exercise.
What is the exercise involving eating one small, dried fruit with full attention to all the senses?
A personal mindfulness meditation practice.
What is a personal requirement MBCT group therapists must have that CBT therapists do not?
True or False: MBCT was originally developed for treating active, severe depression.
False (It was developed for relapse prevention in people who had recovered from depression).
Up to 1 hour of meditation practice per day.
What is the daily homework commitment asked of MBCT participants?
The final phase (Sessions 7-8).
Body scan meditation.
What is the practice involving bringing awareness to each part of the body from toes to head?
Inquiry.
What is the most difficult skill for MBCT therapists to master?
8 weeks
What is the typical length of MBCT group?
Inquiry.
What is the period of group discussion that follows a mindfulness practice?
True or False: In CBT, there is usually a direct correlation between effort and outcome.
True
The 3-minute breathing space.
What is the 3-minute exercise that uses an hourglass metaphor?
Exercising a muscle (starting with 2 pounds, then 5, 10, 15, etc.?
What is the analogy therapists use to explain that mindfulness is built gradually over time?
True or False: MBCT groups usually meet for 45 minutes each session.
False (They meet for 2 to 2½ hours per session).
True or False: MBCT groups require participants to share personal information at every session.
False (Sharing is optional; silence is acceptable).
It can struggle when problems are thorny/intractable, or clients may feel it's superficial/obvious.
What is a weakness of CBT mentioned in the chapter?
Walking meditation, yoga/mindful stretching, seeing meditation, hearing meditation
What is types of meditation mentioned besides sitting and breathing meditation?
"The Guest House" by Rumi.
What is the poem mentioned in session 5 that helps teach acceptance?
The "father" of mindfulness in North America.
What is Jon Kabat-Zinn?
A half-day or day-long "retreat."
What is the special event that some MBCT groups offer near the completion of the 8 weeks?
The intense time commitment to homework, or it requires therapists to have their own meditation practice.
What is a weakness of MBCT discussed in the chapter?
They fall asleep (including snoring).
What is the authors said this often happens to participants during the first body scan?
A unique stone (a parallel to the raisin from Session 1).
What is the thing participants receive and silently gaze at during the closing exercise in Session 8?