Evidence

There is a lot of evidence for MBCT for Depression though less specifically for MBCT-L:

• Evaluation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life and a cognitive behavioural therapy stress-management workshop to improve healthcare staff stress: study protocol for two randomised controlled trials

• Reducing stress and promoting well-being in healthcare workers using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life

• Can Mindfulness Training and Practice Reduce Stress and Increase Levels of Well-Being and Self-Compassion for Secondary School Staff?

• Effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision on teacher mental health and school climate: results of the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial

• Accessibility and implementation in the UK NHS services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme

• Using a Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) Curriculum on Resilience and Gratitude Enhancement

Some other interesting studies include:

• The Mental Health Continuum from Languishing to Flourishing in Life

• The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing, Heres How to Get There

• There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

• Coping profiles characterize individual flourishing, languishing, and depression

• Mediating role of coping competence on the relationship between mindfulness and flourishing

• Modeling the relationships among psychological immunity, mindfulness and flourishing of university students

• Mindfulness Based Flourishing Program

Links

The following links may be of interest:

• https://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/news/mindfulness-for-life-finding-peace-amidst-difficulties-and-cultivating-joy-compassion-equanimity-and-wisdom/

• https://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-for-life-mbct-l/

• https://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MBCT-L-Course-Info-document-2.pdf