Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
10 hours | 10 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is presented by Yotam Heineberg, PsyD.
It is well-known that shame and self-criticism can be difficult problems to treat in a range of psychological problems and may even prevent people from seeking help. Professor Paul Gilbert developed Compassion Focused Therapy. CFT was specifically developed with and for individuals with these difficulties, in part by helping them develop a compassionate orientation to themselves and others by elaborating on cognitive-behavioral strategies. CFT is an evolutionary and neuroscience-based approach to psychotherapy that articulates how the evolution of attachment and affiliative emotion regulates threat processing and the emergence of our self-identities.
CFT integrates evidence-based therapies with the basic insight that our emotions serve an evolutionary function and that recognizing this can help de-shame and de-pathologize painful symptomatic experiences towards greater engagement in therapy. CFT has growing empirical evidence to support its efficacy in a broad range of complex cases, including trauma and rigid personality structures.
The program covers the basic concepts of CFT with PowerPoint presentations and various experiential practices with the use of emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and imagery practices.
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe perspectives from the evolutionary model that underpins CFT
Describe the three types of affect regulation systems (threat, drive and soothing)
Describe the importance of embodiment and mindful attention in working with bottom up processing such as body sensations and visual imagery
Describe the Fears of Compassion scale framework as applied to assessment, psychoeducational, experiential and behavioral treatment goals
Describe attuned sensitivity to the three directions of compassion (giving, receiving, and practicing self-compassion) and the relationship with stress, depression, and anxiety
Describe the perspective from the multiple self framework on how to orient clients towards the cultivation of their compassionate self
Describe mindfulness and compassion based contemplative practices
Describe the distinction between shame
and threat-based self attacking cognitions and soothing-based compassionate thinking
Presented By
Yotam Heineberg, PsyD
Dr. Yotam Heineberg is a licensed clinical psychologist and a clinical faculty member at Palo Alto university’s Gronowski Center, where he offers supervision, clinical and didactic psychotherapy training in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), and other compassion-focused approaches to healing and...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Caring and the Dynamics of Attachment
3. Soothing and Safeness
4. Real-World Examples
5. Fears, Blocks, & Resistances to Compassion
6. Multiple Self Framework
7. Self Criticism, Guilt, and Shame
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