Ford Tamsin, Richardson Jessica, Wilkinson Kath, Smith Patrick, Berry Vashti, Barnhofer Thorsten, Fox Jerry, Kuyken Willem
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, UK.
Clinical Psychologist, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Clinic, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; and Co-Director of Children and Young People's IAPT, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
Br J Psychiatry. 2020 Apr;216(4):175-177. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.183.
We explore the potential of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a skills-based intervention that provides participants with sustainable tools for adaptive responses to stress and negative mood, for the large group of young people with depression or anxiety who only partially or briefly respond to currently available first-line interventions.