  Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Dealing with cancer can often be an overwhelming experience, resulting in cancer patients struggling to focus their attention upon other things. This fact sheet outlines some strategies for clearing your mind of these emotional burdens, so that you can better focus on other issues and therefore more rationally and effectively deal with them.
This fast fact sheet would be useful to health care professionals as a tip sheet when consulting patients; or to cancer patients as a hand-out.
Aspects included in the fast fact sheet:
- Mindfulness in everyday activities
- Mindfulness of breathing
This fact sheet is sourced from Ausmed Publications' textbook: 'Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A health professional's guide to what to say and do', editors Dr Jemma Gilchrist & Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, (2008) chapter seven: 'Depression', by Mandy MacDonald.
Author: Mandy MacDonald
Mandy MacDonald is a clinical psychologist with clinical experience both in Australia and in the United Kingdom, and is a member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society. She has nine years' experience working in psycho-oncology at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney within both liason psychiatry services and, in more recent years, through the establishment of a dedicated clinical psychology service in oncology patients and their loved ones. In her current appointment she provies in-patient and out-patient care to medical oncology, radiation oncology and haematology patients. In addition, Mandy provides education, training and supervision to a broad range of oncology professionals and has been involved in teaching through psycho-educative DVD material. She has a longstanding interest in the development and delivery of comprehensive, multidisciplinary psychosocial care to hospital-based patients.
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