Mindfulness for Preventing Depressive Relapse: Changing the Brain One Breath at a Time

Open Minds Across Canada Mental Health Symposium 2011

Dr. Andrea Grabovac, Dr. Andrea Grabovac is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UBC. She works as a consultant psychiatrist in the Brief Intervention Unit and the Emergency Room at Vancouver General Hospital as well as at the BC Cancer Agency, where she uses mindfulness-based clinical interventions in her work with cancer patients. Her involvement with the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) program at the Vancouver General Hospital outpatient department includes quality assurance research. Together with Dr. Mark Lau, she is completing a funded research project looking at patient preference for modes of MBCT delivery (group, individual, telephone and Internet), as well as developing a protocol for delivery of MBCT in the individual treatment setting. Her recent publications focus on enhancing clinical effectiveness of mindfulness based interventions.

2011-10-04 8:30:00 PM