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Compassion Focused Therapy

Author: Paul Gilbert

Publisher: Junfermann Verlag GmbH

ISBN: 3873878356

Category: Psychology

Page: 240

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Die Bedeutung der heilsamen Wirkung von Mitgefühl (engl. compassion) hat in den letzten Jahren im therapeutischen Setting enorm zugenommen. Die Entwicklung von Mitgefühl – sich selbst und seinen Mitmenschen gegenüber – ist zu einem wichtigen therapeutischen Instrument und Ziel geworden. Paul Gilbert erklärt in seinem Buch, wie die sogenannte Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), in der Mitgefühl zur Verbesserung der psychischen Gesundheit des Klienten im Fokus steht, umgesetzt werden kann. Er zeigt die Unterschiede zu anderen kognitiven Therapieformen auf und stellt die typischen Merkmale der therapeutischen Arbeit vor. Unterteilt in einen theoretischen und einen praktischen Teil bietet das Buch eine klare Darstellung der CFT und eignet sich hervorragend sowohl für Lehrende, Lernende als auch für Praktiker, die mehr Einblicke in diesen vielversprechenden Ansatz bekommen möchten.
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Finde den Mut du selbst zu sein

Wie die Compassion Focused Therapy dabei helfen kann, Schüchternheit zu überwinden und soziales Vertrauen zu stärken

Author: Lynne Henderson

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783867810579

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Page: 336

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Experiencing Compassion-Focused Therapy from the Inside Out

A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists

Author: Russell L. Kolts,Tobyn Bell,James Bennett-Levy,Chris Irons

Publisher: Guilford Publications

ISBN: 1462535275

Category: Psychology

Page: 332

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For therapists wishing to build their skills in compassion-focused therapy (CFT), this powerful workbook presents a unique evidence-based training approach. Self-practice/self-reflection (SP/SR) enables therapists to apply CFT techniques to themselves and reflect on the experience as they work through 34 brief, carefully crafted modules. The authors are master trainers who elucidate the multiple layers of CFT, which integrates cognitive-behavioral therapy, evolutionary science, mindfulness, and other approaches. Three extended therapist examples serve as companions throughout the SP/SR journey. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume includes 24 reproducible forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print most of the reproducible materials.
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Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies

Author: Mary Welford

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 1119078628

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit

Page: 336

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Don't be so hard on yourself – use compassion focused therapy as your guide It's often said that we're our own worst critics—and it's true. Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies offers straightforward and practical advice that helps you view yourself through a more sympathetic lens. This motivating text covers the key principles of compassion focused therapy, which guide you in caring for your wellbeing, becoming sensitive to your needs, recognising when you are distressed, and extending warmth and understanding to yourself. This transformative resource provides you with metrics that you can use to monitor your progress, including sensitivity, sympathy, empathy, and overall wellbeing. Initially developed to assist people experiencing high levels of shame and self-criticism, compassion focused therapy increases your awareness of the automatic reactions that you experience—and motivates you to combat negative reactions with kindness and affection. Used on its own or in combination with other therapeutic approaches, the value of compassion focused therapy is supported by strong neuropsychological evidence. Understand how to handle difficult emotions with greater ease—and less stress Transform difficult, potentially damaging relationships into positive aspects of your life Encourage and motivate yourself to continually meet your goals, rather than criticise yourself for perceived failures Stop being so hard on yourself, and appreciate yourself for who you are Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies is a wonderful resource if you are seeing—or thinking about seeing—a therapist who utilises compassion techniques, or if you would like to leverage the principles of compassion focused therapy to manage your own wellbeing.
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CFT Made Simple

A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy

Author: Russell L Kolts

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

ISBN: 1626253110

Category: Psychology

Page: 224

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For the first time ever, CFT Made Simple offers easy-to-apply tools to help clients develop self-compassion, learn mindfulness skills, and balance difficult emotions for greater treatment outcomes. Created by world-renowned psychologist Paul Gilbert, compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely effective in helping clients work through painful feelings of shame and self-criticism. However, the theoretical aspects of this therapy—such as evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and affective neuroscience—can make CFT difficult to grasp. This book provides everything you need to start implementing CFT in practice, either as a primary therapy modality or as an adjunctive approach to other therapies, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and more. CFT has unique strengths, and is especially effective in helping clients work through troubling thoughts and behaviors, approach themselves and others with greater compassion and kindness, and feel safer and more confident in their ability to handle life’s challenges and difficulties. This book articulates the theoretical basis of the therapy in simple, easy-to-follow language, and offers practical guidance and strategies on how to tailor your CFT approach to specific client populations. As a clinician interested in the benefits of CFT but wary of the dense theoretical principles that lay behind it, you need a user-friendly guide that will let you hit the ground running. CFT Made Simple is that guide.
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Improving Social Confidence and Reducing Shyness Using Compassion Focused Therapy

Series editor, Paul Gilbert

Author: Lynne Henderson

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1849014442

Category: Self-Help

Page: 160

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Shyness can affect most of us to varying degrees, and tends to affect children more than adults as people tend to grow in confidence as they get older. It is therefore a universal emotion but in some people it is a more pronounced personality trait. Severe shyness is referred to as 'social anxiety disorder', however this self-help book is written for the people experiencing different degrees of shyness. Shyness has evolved as an emotion over thousands of years and can be helpful in some circumstances, however normal shyness can become chronic thanks to negative thoughts, avoidance and withdrawal. While shyness has its functions, it becomes a problem when it interferes with life goals, develops into social anxiety disorder or leads on to 'learned pessimism', mild depression and even 'learned helplessness'. This self-help book, based on the groundbreaking new Compassion Focused Therapy, sets out the background to shyness - its evolutionary functions, why it becomes chronic in some people, and sets out skills and exercises based on CFT to help the reader overcome problematic shyness.
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The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Calm Worry, Panic, and Fear

Author: Dennis Tirch

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

ISBN: 1608828697

Category: Self-Help

Page: 232

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Anxiety is not your fault. There are many factors that contribute to developing a mind that is prone to intense anxiety, and if you have such a mind, there are many things you can do to change the way it works. Research has shown that practicing kindness and compassion soothes experiences of fear, while self-critical thoughts tend to intensify them. If you become frustrated with your anxious reactions or consistently try to talk yourself out of your anxiety, it may be time to try a different approach. The compassion-focused therapy (CFT) based program in The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety will help you learn to be kinder to yourself while you soothe your anxious impulses. Complete with worksheets, exercises, and meditation practices, this book includes everything you need to learn mindfulness and compassion-focused skills for redirecting your anxious thoughts and allowing yourself to enjoy a more peaceful life. By learning to be a compassionate witness to your own pain, you will also learn to be fully present in the moment, and develop healthier, more fluid ways of responding to life’s struggles. This resourceful guide aims to help you understand the nature of your anxiety, the best ways of dealing with it, and how your mind can help you cope with it.
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The Power of Self-Compassion

Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to End Self-Criticism and Build Self-Confidence

Author: Mary Welford

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Incorporated

ISBN: 9781572249837

Category: Self-Help

Page: 268

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From Self-Esteem to Self-Compassion is based on the groundbreaking new compassion-focused therapy (CFT), developed by foreword writer Paul Gilbert. This book helps readers move beyond traditional ideas about self-esteem, and gives them the tools needed to overcome shame, self-criticism, and self-doubt, so that they can build self-confidence and improve the overall quality of their lives.If someone told you that you have low self-esteem, would it cause you to bristle? For many, the very concept of self-esteem has negative connotations, because it calls to mind the comparisons we make between ourselves and others. So how do you build real self-confidence? In The Power of Self-Compassion, you will learn that focusing on self-compassion, rather than self-esteem, is actually the best way to build true, lasting self-confidence. For too long self-esteem has been based on the idea that if you achieve certain goals you are doing okay. This can lead to comparing yourself with others as a way to build confidence. The skills and behavioral techniques outlined in this book are drawn from the groundbreaking compassion-focused therapy (CFT), which holds that being compassionate to yourself-even when things are not going well-is central to building real self-confidence. With compassion-focused therapy, you will adopt an accepting attitude about your strengths and weaknesses, and a commitment to change that doesn't depend on being overly critical of yourself or comparing yourself with others. In addition, you will learn how the concept of self-confidence fits in the context of our evolution, biology, and life experiences. If you are looking to improve your self-confidence, the behavioral steps provided in this book can help you focus on the areas in your life that need improvement, so that you can build a stronger sense of self-worth and competence.
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The Compassionate Mind Approach to Managing Your Anger

Using Compassion-focused Therapy

Author: Russell Kolts

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1780330839

Category: Self-Help

Page: 160

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We can all get angry from time to time but when it gets out of hand it can have a serious impact on many aspects of our lives. As well as having an impact on our physical and mental health and our ability to engage in healthy relationships, it can also potentially have an enormous impact on society. The media is rife with stories of domestic violence, tragic stories of shaken babies, road-rage incidents and bullying. Mounting evidence suggests that all this anger can be harmful to us in a number of different ways. As well as the enormously damaging impact chronic anger can have on our relationships with other people, it is being linked to health problems such as cardiovascular disease and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and mental illnesses such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This invaluable self-help guide will enable the reader to recognise their personal anger problems, gain an understanding of what lies behind their anger, and use techniques based on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to deal with their anger more effectively. CFT was initially developed by Professor Paul Gilbert, author of The Compassionate Mind, to treat those with high levels of self-criticism. It uses the proven, research-based techniques of CBT and other therapies with a special focus on the importance of developing inner compassion, in order to alleviate feelings of shame, develop a more balanced outlook and promote resilience. It incorporates elements of mindfulness and Tibetan Buddhism with recent research on human development and studies of the brain. It is increasingly used to treat a wide range of emotional and psychological problems including depression, overeating, shyness, trauma, anxiety and anger.
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Improving Social Confidence and Reducing Shyness Using Compassion Focused Therapy

Author: Dr Lynne Henderson

Publisher: Robinson

ISBN: 9781849012027

Category: Self-Help

Page: 272

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Shyness can affect most of us to varying degrees, and tends to affect children more than adults as people tend to grow in confidence as they get older. It is therefore a universal emotion but in some people it is a more pronounced personality trait. Severe shyness is referred to as 'social anxiety disorder', however this self-help book is written for the people experiencing different degrees of shyness. Shyness has evolved as an emotion over thousands of years and can be helpful in some circumstances, however normal shyness can become chronic thanks to negative thoughts, avoidance and withdrawal. While shyness has its functions, it becomes a problem when it interferes with life goals, develops into social anxiety disorder or leads on to 'learned pessimism', mild depression and even 'learned helplessness'. This self-help book, based on the groundbreaking new Compassion Focused Therapy, sets out the background to shyness - its evolutionary functions, why it becomes chronic in some people, and sets out skills and exercises based on CFT to help the reader overcome problematic shyness.
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The Compassionate Mind Approach to Recovering from Trauma

Using Compassion Focused Therapy

Author: Deborah Lee,Sophie James

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1849019452

Category: Self-Help

Page: 160

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Terrible events are very hard to deal with and those who go through a trauma often feel permanently changed by it. Grief, numbness, anger, anxiety and shame are all very common emotional reactions to traumatic incidents such as an accident or death of a loved one, and ongoing traumatic events such as domestic abuse. How we deal with the aftermath of trauma and our own emotional response can determine how quickly we are able to 'move on' and get back to 'normality' once more. An integral part of the recovery process is not only recognising and accepting how our lives may have been changed but also learning to deal with feelings of shame - an extremely common reaction to trauma. 'Recovering from Trauma' uses the groundbreaking Compassion Focused Therapy to help the reader to not only develop a fuller understanding of how we react to trauma, but also to deal with any feelings of shame and start to overcome any trauma-related difficulties.
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Selbstcoaching

Die 86 besten Tools

Author: Stefanie Demann

Publisher: GABAL Verlag GmbH

ISBN: 3869364831

Category: Self-Help

Page: 216

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Selbstcoaching begleitet uns ein Leben lang: sich Klarheit verschaffen, Entscheidungen treffen, allen Mut zusammen nehmen, loslegen, sich immer wieder neu motivieren, inne halten, Inventur machen … Das alles passiert nicht an einem Tag und auch nicht in einem Seminar. Selbstcoaching hilft uns dabei, jene Bereiche weiterzuentwickeln, auf die wir persönlich Einfluss haben: unser Denken, unser Verhalten und unsere Gefühle. Dafür bietet dieses Buch mehr als 80 Tools und orientiert sich dabei an den vier Entwicklungsstufen: Klarheit über das eigene Potenzial gewinnen, die richtigen Entscheidungen treffen, ins Handeln kommen und nachhaltig am Ball bleiben. Den Lauf der Dinge werden wir mit Selbstcoaching zwar nicht aufhalten und es werden auch immer wieder Dinge passieren, ohne dass wir etwas dagegen tun können. Dennoch brauchen wir nicht fatalistisch die Hände in den Schoß zu legen. Als Selbstcoacher tun Sie das Beste, zu dem Sie im Stande sind – und das ist mehr, als die meisten anderen Menschen tun.
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The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating

Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Bineing and Disordered Eating

Author: Ken Goss

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

ISBN: 1459624211

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Page: 492

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You know the cycle: you have a stressful day and find yourself snacking or overeating at dinner to make yourself feel better. The ritual of eating becomes so calming, you can't stop-and the guilt and self-criticism you feel can lead you to overeat even more the next day. What you may not know is that simply replacing your negative feelings with compassion for yourself can interrupt this cycle so that you can meet your emotional needs without resorting to overeating. The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Ending Overeating presents an evidence-based program designed to help you grow a deep and abiding love for your body and health that transcends your emotional connection with food. As you work through the worksheets and evaluations in this book, you'll discover the specific reasons for your overeating, find out which foods trigger you to overeat, and then develop satisfying meal plans for getting your eating back on track. You'll also build compassionate-mind skills for dealing with stress, self-criticism, and shame, and establish a balanced eating pattern that will free you from the overeating cycle.