Compassion Focused Therapy: Distinctive Features

By Paul Gilbert. 2010

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Self-Compassion and Body Dissatisfaction in Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Meditation Intervention (2014, background): “Another study by Gale et al. (2012) found that compassion-focused therapy—a general therapeutic approach designed to help patients develop a sense of compassion, warmth, and emotional responsiveness toward themselves (Gilbert, 2010)—significantly improved eating disorder symptomatology.”
The relevance of self‐compassion as an intervention target in mood and anxiety disorders: A narrative review based on an emotion regulation framework (2017, background): “…Therapy (CFT) is a therapeutic approach that directly focuses on increasing the capacity for three aspects of the flow of compassion proposed by Gilbert (2009, 2010), while Compassionate Mind Training (CMT), is a group program based on the principles of CFT (e.g., Gilbert, 2009; Gilbert &…”
A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation (2013, unknown): “CMT is a group therapy program based on compassion focused therapy (CFT; Gilbert 2010).”
An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion in Mental Health With a Focus on Affiliative Emotions (2015, background): “So compassion building becomes a way of courage building and tackling one’s difficulties in life (Gilbert, 2010).”
Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures. (2011, background): “The last 10 years has seen a growth of research into the nature and functions of compassion (Davidson & Harrington, 2002; Gilbert, 2005, 2009, 2010a, b; Goetz, Keltner, & Simon-Thomas, 2010).”
The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “Also, given that Gilbert himself includes nonjudgment as a key attribute of compassion (Gilbert 2010), it can be argued that the inclusion of items assessing the absence of self-judgment is not inconsistent with his theoretical perspective.”
The impact of gratitude on depression and anxiety: the mediating role of criticizing, attacking, and reassuring the self (2016, background): “Similarly, the calm and peaceful types of positive feelings associated with feeling cared for, reassured, and warmly supported, instead of harshly criticized, are also linked to a neurohormonal profile of increased oxytocin (depue & Morrone-Strupinsky, 2005; Gilbert, 2010).”
Meditation and happiness: Mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate the meditation–happiness relationship (2016, background): “Recent western literature and Buddhist philosophy further emphasize the role of mindfulness and self-compassion in happiness (Germer, 2009; Gilbert, 2010; Rahula, Rahula & Demieville, 2007).”
Social Safeness, Received Social Support, and Maladjustment: Testing a Tripartite Model of Affect Regulation (2012, background): “therefore a defining feature of felt security, whereas social safeness is thought to come from the presence or perception of soothing, threat-regulating others, whether or not they are attachment partners (Gilbert 2010).”
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research (2021, background): “A wide variety of functional approaches to psychotherapy such as Compassion Focused Therapy (Gilbert, 2010), or Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (Kohlenberg & Tsai, 2007), have long had a comfortable home in CBS.”
A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self-compassion program. (2013, background): “CFT is currently being used to treat eating disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, shame, and other psychological conditions (Gilbert, 2010; Goss & Allan, 2010; Kelly, Zuroff, & Shapira, 2009; Lowens, 2010).”
Enhancing Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Compassion Cultivation Training Program (2013, background): “Acknowledgments This research was supported by a Fetzer grant awarded to Philippe Goldin and James Gross, as well funding from Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE).”