Main description:

Based on an 8-week Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy programme, this guide addresses the increasing need for adapted mindfulness in the management of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Long Covid, and other chronic fatigue conditions.

Using current understanding and theoretical approaches to Long Covid and ME/ CFS, this book allows practitioners to understand how they can adapt their teaching to accommodate patients with specific needs and challenges, including adaptations for brain fog, approaches to rest, movement, daily activity and accompanying difficult thoughts and emotions. Contributions from people who manage ME, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue through mindfulness are included alongside practical guidance and detailed week-by-week session plans whether that's in-person or online. Filled with helpful diagrams and illustrations, practitioners can use this guide to greatly widen the scope of who they can reach and gently empower clients living with often isolating conditions on how to apply this approach in the long-term to their everyday lives.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword Professor Rebecca Crane
Chapter 1 Introduction

Part 1: Fatigue and the principles of a mindfulness based approach to self-management
Chapter 2 Fatigue based health conditions: ME/CFS. Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
Chapter 3 Pragmatic transdiagnostic understanding of ME/CFS/FMS/LC
Chapter 4 Supported self-management
Chapter 5 What is a mindfulness-based approach?
Chapter 6 Mindfulness based approach to self -management
Chapter 7 Managing cognitive challenges : brain fog and mindfulness
Chapter 8 Underlying processes in mindfulness
Chapter 9 Resourcing and regulating: a trauma-informed approach

Part 2: Mindfulness practices and teaching considerations: adaptation and nuance
Chapter 10 The structure of mindfulness practices in the fatigue programme
Chapter 11 Developing awareness though enquiry.
Chapter 12 Mindful movement - how does it feel when I move? With Sarah Nearney
Chapter 13 Mindfulness of thoughts - particular features and specific contents of thoughts

Part 3: Applying a mindfulness-based approach to life
Chapter 14 Mindfulness-based activity management
Chapter 15 Rest - what is it and how do we do it?

Part 4: The mindfulness-based course
Chapter 16 Practical considerations: zoom or room and initial interviews and follow up
Chapter 17 Weekly session outlines with rationale
Chapter 18 Living with fatigue: From doing to Being by Rhonda Knight
Chapter 19 Training and Supervision
Chapter 20 Summary and Resources
References
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