Compassion focused therapy for people with dementia: A feasibility study

Craig, Catriona; Hiskey, Syd; Royan, Lindsay; Poz, Rebecca; Spector, Aimee

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“…The CFT group showed more improvements than the TAU group in psychopathology, fear of selfcompassion, and social safety. In addition, groupbased CFT has been applied in observational studies without control groups and found to benefit individuals struggling with personality disorders (32), dementia (33,34), eating disorders (35), and complex MH problems (5,36).…”

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An exploration of group-based compassion-focused therapy for adolescents and their parents

Bratt

Rusner

Svensson

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background: The long-term negative consequences of mental health problems during adolescence highlight the need for effective treatments. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) aims to help individuals to enhance their ability to support and care for themselves and to alleviate shame and self-stigmatization. Objective: This non-randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of group-based CFT on perceived stress and the extent of self-compassion in a clinical sample of adolescents receiving psychiatric care for complex mental health difficulties and their parents. Method: The participants were 43 adolescents (ages 14-17; 83.7 % female) under treatment at a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic in Sweden and their parents (n = 77; 61 % female). The adolescents volunteered for group-based CFT (n = 19); if they did not want to participate, they were asked to join the control group receiving treatment as usual (TAU, n = 24). The CFT parents were given the same treatment as their children in parallel parent groups. The participants completed questionnaires measuring self-compassion and perceived stress before and after treatment. Paired samples t-tests and independent samples t-tests assessed the within-group and between-group differences via change scores. Results: The fathers scored highest on self-compassion and had less perceived stress at both times than the adolescents or mothers. There were no significant differences between the CFT and TAU groups in self-compassion or perceived stress at either time, and the effect sizes were small (g ≤ 0.25). The TAU mother group was the only group with a significantly changed mean self-compassion score post-treatment. Conclusions: Some patients seem to benefit from group-based CFT in ways similar to the benefits of specialized therapeutic approaches. Further research into the utility of CFT for adolescents with MH problems and their parents, as well as the longterm clinical effects of CFT for this group is needed.

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An exploration of group-based compassion-focused therapy for adolescents and their parents

Bratt

Rusner

Svensson

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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“…The results of non-randomized clinical trials have found that group-based CFT can benefit individuals who struggle with personality disorders (Lucre & Corten, 2013), dementia (Collins, Gilligan, & Poz, 2018;Craig, Hiskey, Royan, Poz, & Spector, 2018), eating disorders (Gale, Gilbert, Read, & Goss, 2014), and complex MH problems (Gilbert & Procter, 2006;Judge, Cleghorn, McEwan, & Gilbert, 2012). However, qualitative research studies of participants' perspectives and experiences of group-based CFT interventions are scarce.…”

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Finding confidence and inner trust as a parent: experiences of group-based compassion-focused therapy for the parents of adolescents with mental health problems

Bratt

Svensson

Rusner

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) can alleviate the stress and challenges faced by the parents of adolescents with mental health (MH) problems. Although CFT interventions have shown promising results, few studies have examined its effectiveness in adolescent psychiatric settings. Therefore, this study examined the participant experiences of groupbased CFT for the parents of adolescents with MH problems. Methods: The reflective lifeworld research (RLR) approach was used to conduct in-depth interviews with eleven parents, focusing on participant experiences of group-based CFT. Meaning-oriented data analysis was undertaken. Results: The essential meaning of the phenomenon of participating in group-based CFT was understood as finding confidence and inner trust as a parent, characterized by an understanding of one's own needs, which provided parents with the confidence to support their children. The phenomenon is further explicated with its three constituents: (a) taking care of oneself and one's child; (b) being open and sharing experiences; and (c) acceptance and hope for the future. Conclusions: The CFT intervention enabled parents to find their agency and strengthened their relationships with their children. The findings underscore the need to acknowledge the supportive role parents play in the recovery of children who receive psychiatric care.

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“…Other client groups who experience challenges with traditional talking therapies may also benefit from such a creative approach to CFT. This includes but is not limited to CFT for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Clapton, Williams, Griffith, & Jones, 2018; Cowles, Randle‐Phillips, & Medley, 2018), acquired brain injury (Ashworth, Clarke, Jones, Jennings, & Longworth, 2015), and dementia (Craig, Hiskey, Royan, Poz, & Spector, 2018). The Compassionate Kitbag can also be used as an adjunct to stabilization, resourcing and reprocessing work in trauma‐focused approaches such as EMDR for people with PTSD and CPTSD (Beaumont & Martin, 2013; Kennedy, 2014; Whalley & Lee, 2019).…”

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The Compassionate Kitbag: A creative and integrative approach to compassion‐focused therapy

Lucre

Clapton

2020

Psychol Psychother

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Purpose. This paper outlines the concept of the 'Compassionate Kitbag', a novel multisensory-based means of helping draw together the various elements of compassionate mind training and processes within compassion-focused therapy (CFT), to help clients cultivate and facilitate their capacities for compassion. Building on the work of Lucre and Corten (2013, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86, 387), this is the first published work exploring this concept and the theoretical underpinnings, with a specific focus on how this can be used to support people with attachment and relational trauma.Methods. A narrative review of the literature on multi-sensory stimulation in facilitating people's capacities for compassion was conducted, coupled with a review of the literature of the use of non-human and transitional objects as explained by attachment theory and the broader scientific research underpinning the CFT model. Results. Clinical examples of how to use the Compassionate Kitbag to help stimulate compassionate therapeutic processes demonstrate the benefits of and how to begin utilizing this approach in compassion-focused work with clients with complex needs.Conclusions. The Compassionate Kitbag's potential therapeutic value lies in offering multifarious creative and tangible means of accessing compassion to a wide range of individuals whom are typically fearful of, blocked, and/or resistant to compassion. Further research into the wider application of the concept of the Compassionate Kitbag is needed. Practitioner pointsMany patients with ruptured and/or traumatized early attachment relationships can find more traditional talking therapies difficult to access. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) can offer an evolutionary-based understanding of interpersonal difficulties which can be helpful for such patients. Creatively harnessing and utilizing multi-sensory and non-linguistic social signals in CFT is key to exercising the care-giving and care-receiving social mentalities that facilitate compassionate flow. There is considerable evidence to support the use of a multi-sensory component to the therapeutic work to help patients cultivate and facilitate their capacities for compassion.

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Compassion focused therapy for people with dementia: A feasibility study

Cited by 24 publications

References 28 publications

An exploration of group-based compassion-focused therapy for adolescents and their parents

An exploration of group-based compassion-focused therapy for adolescents and their parents

Finding confidence and inner trust as a parent: experiences of group-based compassion-focused therapy for the parents of adolescents with mental health problems

The Compassionate Kitbag: A creative and integrative approach to compassion‐focused therapy

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