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COMPASSION-FOCUSED THERAPY [1 record]

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Record 1 2023-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a therapeutic approach aimed at helping people cultivate compassion for self and others ... CFT enables people to respond to self-criticism and shame with compassion by using a self-supportive inner voice ... CFT is a psychotherapy, having roots in attachment theory …, affective neuroscience and evolutionary psychology …

Key term(s)
  • compassion focused therapy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Comportement humain
CONT

La TFC se propose de cultiver la compassion par des pratiques de visualisation, de méditation de pleine conscience, de respiration ou encore de travail de chaises. Elle a été développée pour des personnes souffrant de problèmes psychologiques complexes et souvent chroniques, dominés par le sentiment de honte et l'autocritique, et associés à des antécédents de maltraitance ou de carences psychoaffectives. Elle est indiquée, entre autres, pour les troubles anxieux, dépressifs, bipolaires, de la personnalité ou des conduites alimentaires, etc.

Spanish

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