Talk:Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
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Mattjs 22:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)I suggested in the discussion on the Mindfulness page splitting the article or adding a Mindfulness-based Therapy page:
- Although there is not a MT Therapy per se (but only MBCT et al) it is still an idea and a name that is useful theoreticallly ie. a useful theoretic label eg. Mindfulness alone without the CT/CBT or any other parts.
- Alternattively maybe we or someone (as i dont know how to yet!?) should simply redirect Mindfulness-based Therapy to Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.
- Finally maybe a Mindfulness-based Therapies page could be created that summarizes and links to the appropriate therapies in detail eg. the second half of the Mindfulness page (see my comments over there) could then be put there instead...
Any ideas or suggestions??? User:Mattjs
[edit] I've been working.
hi I'm Karley. I've been working on the MBCT page a lot attempting to clean it up. Would someone like to look at it and give me pointers? I'm not sure what clean up actually is but I've added references and lots more info. the original info was a webpage someone just copied and pasted on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Karley1 (talk • contribs) 4 November 2006, 21:33
Hey this is Karley again. So, I've been working on this page for a couple of months and have made tremendous changes. Nobody has said anything so I am assuming it is okay. Let me know what you think and if more cleanup is necessary. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Karley1 (talk • contribs) 7 December 2006, 01:57)
- Hi, Karley — you've been doing a great job with this article! I've been doing some further edits to comply with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. Here are some further comments and pointers, hope you find it helpful:
- The first, and most important issue: You mentioned that "the original info was a webpage someone just copied and pasted on". If this is so, it might be a copyright violation and needs to be attended to! Any remaining text that was taken from the webpage needs to be removed. Which is the website that was copied?
- It's best if the first sentence of the first section is a sort of definition that sums up the topic. Maybe something like "Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a form of psychotherapy that blends cognitive therapy with mindfulness skills."?
- I added some categories to the page, Category:Psychotherapy and Category:Cognitive therapy. Maybe there is (or should be created) a relevant category for topics on mindfulness that should be added as well?
- Some parts of the text should be written from a more neutral point of view, an important policy on Wikipedia that is sometimes called NPOV. For example, take the sentence: "Depression is a more serious problem than how it is presently seen." Seen by who? And who thinks it's a more serious problem?
- I'm not sure that the whole section on depression is needed — this article should focus on what MBCT is.
- It would be nice to have more primary sources. For example, "The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a study..." — it's best to reference this with that WHO study, not a secondary source. (However, a secondary source is of course better than nothing at all.) I changed the style of references to the popular <ref>, hope you like that.
- When writing on talk pages, it's a good idea to sign you posts using four tildes: ~~~~.
- Hope you will continue contributing to Wikipedia on this and other topics! /skagedal... 21:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
