Project Description
Compassion focused therapy is rooted in an evolution informed biopsychosocial approach to understanding of the origins of our mental functions. It explores the way motives, emotions, competencies and behaviours are the source of mental health difficulties. In particular competitive self-focused motives can underpin a variety of mental health difficulties, including harsh self-criticism shame, loneliness depression and narcissism whereas caring and compassion motives tend to facilitate prosocial behaviour and well-being. Experiencing caring, particularly but not only in early life, is linked to various psychophysiological processes that are important for emotion and self-regulation. Difficulties in the early attachment process can compromise emotion and self-regulation. CFT helps clients to harness the psychophysiological processes of the care motivational system as a framework for the therapeutic processes. This workshop introduces some of the basic processes of compassion and how to use them therapeutically
This workshop will look at BA as a treatment approach that has transdiagnostic value. Helping clients to re-engage in their lives, approach rather than avoid distressing feelings and events, and actively solve problems rather than brood about them are strategies addressing common maintaining factors in a variety of psychological disorders. This workshop is geared to clinicians who have experience with CBT, and is intended to focus on both theoretical and practical implications.