Training Material

The following training and clinical material is available for you to download.

Handbook 2010 click here to download.  This may be useful for those attending the introductory workshops.

Outline and session by session record of a Compassion Focussed Group Therapy.  This is based on a research project looking at what happens when we did eight sessions of CFT within another therapy modality.  This is not necessarily the recommended process but just to share with you inisghts that arose from it.   click here

2010

Patient Handout and Clinical Guide

We now have the patient handout and guide for group and individual therapy. This supersedes the information that was put on the website in 2007 and is all now in one place. We are leaving the 2007 materials just in case anyone wants to see earlier versions. If possible print these out in colour as they are rather smarter and clearer to use. You will be following the model in terms of explaining the model, particularly its evolutionary basis and then gradually work through the exercises picking up and working with people's difficulties and resistances.

If using this handout then you should have a recognised training in some aspect of therapy and have attended the three day introductory workshop. As with all therapies you are clinically responsible to only provide therapy that you feel competent to provide. The Compassionate Mind Foundation makes clear that clinical responsibility remains with the clinician at all times and not with the Foundation. click here

Handouts from a one/two day workshop (April 2010)  click here

2007

Background and psychoeducation materials (document 1).  click here

Using Compassion to Change our Minds. (2007)  click here

Building a Compassionate Image.  (2007)  click here

Compassionate Letter Writing.  (2007) click here

Developing Qualities of Inner Compassion. (Client Handout) (2007) click here

Formulation. (2007) click here

Compassion Focused Therapy & Compassionate Mind Training. (2007) click here

LATEST ADDITION

Therapist Competencies


Compassion focused therapy is based on cognitive behavioural therapy, although it integrates work from other therapies, particularly mindfulness, attachment based therapies and mentalizing. Tony Roth and colleagues have been doing excellent work on trying to identify core competencies and for the most part, I think, these are absolutely key for CFT too. In the course of time we might fine tune them a bit because one of our core competencies is having a deep understanding of the evolutionary model as well as clarity about the nature of compassion, but I think this is a great start for us. Should anybody want to think about developing the nature of core competencies within CFT based on what Roth and colleagues have done then just let me know.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/CORE/competence_frameworks.htm