Compassion Focused Therapy in Practice

Compassion Focused Therapy in Practice

Many patients suffering, for example, from early traumatic experiences, emotional or physical neglect have never learned to treat themselves
with understanding, kindness and compassion.Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) was developed against this background. This kind of therapy aims at encouraging compassion for oneself and others in a therapeutic context.

In order to understand what you yourself are suffering and to develop compassion for yourself and for others, this book starts by focusing on
specific psycho-education and on developing a model of the disorder. This is followed by what is known as Compassionate Mind Training with
specific interventions such as imagination exercises, compassionate self-analysis, behaviour analysis and situation analysis, compassionoriented chair work and compassion-oriented letter writing.

• Topic currently highly in demand - compassion or self-compassion
• Method can be integrated into CBT, schema therapy, ACT

TARGET GROUP
Psychological and medical psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training