Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: An efficacious community-based group intervention for depression and anxiety in a sample of cancer patients

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 193, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Sharplin, Greg R ^a   Jones, Simeon B W ^a   Hancock, Barbara ^a   Knott, Vikki E ^b   Bowden, Jacqueline A ^a   Whitford, Hayley S ^c  

^a CANCER COUNCIL SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c CANCER COUNCIL AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROUP THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; CAUSALITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955070911     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03934.x     Document Type: Article

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