Mindfulness-based interventions for coping with cancer

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1373, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-12

  Carlson, Linda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; cancer; depression; meditation; mindfulness; stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER SURVIVOR; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS BASED CANCER RECOVERY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84979581682     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13029     Document Type: Article

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