half day workshop

PREVENTION OF RELAPSE IN RECURRENT DEPRESSION USING A NEW FORM OF COGNITIVE THERAPY
Claudi Bockting, University of Amsterdam, AMC, The Netherlands and Mascha/Willemijn ten Doesschate/Scholten, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CCIB Room: 219/20

Depression is a recurring disorder.  Sequential treatment in which Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is started after antidepressant treatment remission appears to be an effective strategy to prevent recurrence in patients who are at high-risk for recurrence (Ma & Teasdale, 2004). Preventive Cognitive Therapy (CT) after divers types of acute treatment (Bockting et al, 2005), appears also to be an effective strategy to prevent relapse in recurrently depressed patients.]\
Depression is a recurring disorder.  Sequential treatment in which Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is started after antidepressant treatment remission appears to be an effective strategy to prevent recurrence in patients who are at high-risk for recurrence (Teasdale et al., 2000, Ma & Teasdale, 2004). Preventive Cognitive Therapy (CT) after divers types of acute treatment (Bockting et al, 2005), appears also to be an effective strategy to prevent relapse in recurrently depressed patients. This preventive effect of CT focuses on presumed psychological vulnerability factors of relapse, e.g. rigid dysfunctional attitudes. In this workshop this new preventive cognitive group therapy will be demonstrated.   Role-plays and videos will be used.

Key References:
Bockting, C.L.H., Schene, A.H., Spinhoven, Ph., Koeter, M.W.J., Wouters, L.F., Huyser, J., & Kamphuis, J.H.: Preventing relapse/recurrence in recurrent depression using cognitive therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2005;73: 647-657.  
Ma, S.H., & Teasdale, J.D. (2004). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: Replication and exploration of differential relapse prevention effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 31-40.