Could mindfulness-based cognitive therapy prevent a lifelong recurrent course of depression or anxiety by addressing key mechanisms of vulnerability in high-risk adolescents?

Affiliations

• ¹ Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, UK.
• ² 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.
• ³ Associate Research Fellow, Peninsula Childhood Disability Research Unit, University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health; and NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care South-West Peninsula, Institute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
• ⁴ Clinical Psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; and Reader in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
• ⁵ Senior Research Fellow, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care South-West Peninsula, Institute of Health Research, University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
• ⁶ Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK.
• ⁷ Community Psychiatric Nurse, Devon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; and MBCT Therapist, Mood Disorder Centre, University of Exeter, UK.
• ⁸ Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.