Background Over the last 20 years, compassion focused therapy (CFT) has gained
popularity as an emerging 'third wave'intervention. Although previous reviews indicated its …

Purpose Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a substantive increase in compassion‐
based interventions aiming to improve psychological functioning and well‐being. Methods …

Self-compassion involves being touched by and open to one's own suffering, not avoiding or
disconnecting from it, generating the desire to alleviate one's suffering and to heal oneself …

This is the authoritative guide to conducting the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program,
which provides powerful tools for coping with life challenges and enhancing emotional well …

Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is rooted in an evolutionary, functional analysis of basic
social motivational systems (eg, to live in groups, form hierarchies and ranks, seek out …

Growing evidence suggests that positive mental health or wellbeing protects against
psychopathology. How and why those who flourish derive these resilient outcomes is …

Introduction: Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is an increasingly popular therapeutic
modality. Its holistic and integrative approach to universal human suffering means that it is …

Background. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a relatively novel form of psychotherapy
that was developed for people who have mental health problems primarily linked to high …

Objectives: Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is an integrative, evolution-informed
approach to mental health difficulties that has been growing rapidly in the last 30 years. This …

Cognitive reappraisal and acceptance are two presumably adaptive emotion regulation
strategies in depression. More recently, self-compassion has been discussed as another …