CFT Made Simple
A Clinician's Guide to Practicing Compassion-Focused Therapy
Published on 1. June 2016
250 pages
978-1-62625-310-0 (ISBN)
Description
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. Using the easy-to-apply tools outlined in this comprehensive guide to CFT, professionals can help clients develop self-compassion and, learn mindfulness skills, and balance difficult emotions for greater treatment outcomes.
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08/2016
New Harbinger Publications
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Russell L. Kolts, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Eastern Washington University, where he has taught for the past seventeen years. Kolts has authored or coauthored numerous books and scholarly articles, including The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger, and has pioneered the application of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) to the treatment of problematic anger. An internationally recognized expert in CFT, he regularly conducts trainings and workshops on compassion and CFT, and has appeared in his own TEDx Talk.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Origins and Basic Themes
- Chapter 2
- Introducing Compassion
- Chapter 3
- Compassionate Relating: Roles of the Therapist in CFT
- Chapter 4
- Compassionate Understanding: How Evolution Has Shaped Our Brains
- Chapter 5
- Compassionate Understanding: Three Types of Emotion
- Chapter 6
- Compassionate Understanding: The Social Shaping of the Self
- Chapter 7
- Compassionate Awareness: Cultivating Mindfulness
- Chapter 8
- Committing to Compassion: Working with Self-Criticism
- Chapter 9
- Cultivating the Compassionate Self
- Chapter 10
- Compassionate Thinking and Reasoning
- Chapter 11
- Using Compassionate Imagery
- Chapter 12
- Embodying Compassion: Chair Work in CFT
- Chapter 13
- Compassionate Integration: Case Formulation in CFT
- Chapter 14
- Exploring Affect: The Multiple Selves Practice
- Chapter 15
- Riding the Third Wave: Integrating CFT into Your Therapy
- Conclusion
- Afterword: Unpacking the Compassionate Mind
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Reproducible Forms
- References
- About the author
- Index
