Emotion-Focused Mobile App for Promoting Self-Compassion, Self-Protection, and Self-Criticism

Halamová, Júlia; Mihaľo, Jakub; Bakoš, Lukáš

doi:10.3390/ijerph192113759

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“…The first author is a university professor and a psychotherapist with a private practice and extensive experience and training in Emotion-focused Therapy and some experience and training in Somatic Trauma therapy. She is also the creator of several research supported interventions proved to be effective in the non-clinical and clinical population (e.g., Halamová et al, 2018aHalamová et al, , 2019aHalamová et al, , 2022. The intervention includes exercises on compassion fatigue, compassion, self-compassion, selfcriticism, self-care, mission, work-life balance and strengthening trauma protection skills necessary for helping professionals.…”

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Randomized controlled trial of emotion-focused training for helping professionals

2022

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IntroductionThe aim of this study was to examine the short- and long-term effectiveness of the novel Emotion-focused Training for Helping Professions on levels of compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress & burnout), self-criticism, self-compassion, and compassion for others.MethodsA randomized controlled trial study was conducted. A total of 253 participants were recruited and randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. The experimental group attended a 14-day online training. The control group did not perform any tasks.ResultsResults showed that after completing the intervention the experimental group participants reported significantly lower scores for secondary traumatic stress, burnout and self-criticism, and higher scores for self-compassion and that these lasted for two months after completion. Compared to the control group, the experimental group participants had significantly lower scores of secondary traumatic stress, burnout, self-criticism, and higher scores of self-compassion after the intervention. No significant changes were found for the control group, except a significant increase in time in the reported score for one dimension of burnout – exhaustion.DiscussionThe novel EFT-HP training was shown to be effective in reducing levels of compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress and burnout) and self-criticism and increasing self-compassion.

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Self-Criticism: Conceptualization, Assessment and Interventions

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Self-criticism, considered as a transdiagnostic concept in the emergence of various psychopathologies, is considered as negative evaluations directed towards oneself especially in perceived failure situations. In literature various views regarding self-criticism, suggesting it as a personality trait, a style of relating to oneself, a coping response to various situations, or a safety strategy developed to restrain negative experiences, exist. In this regard, various researchers have conceptualized self-criticism with different dimensions and structures, leading to the development of various measurement tools. Findings obtained from these scales indicate that self-criticism is a risk factor for psychopathology and a factor that affects individuals to experience difficult emotions and their engagement in various challenging behaviors such as perfectionism and emotional eating. For this reason, several interventions aimed at reducing individuals' levels of self-criticism have been conducted in the literature. In this study the scales developed based on different conceptualizations of self-criticism were introduced, the effects of self-criticism on individuals were presented by compiling results of studies in which the relationships between self-criticism and various variables were examined and finally the results of intervention studies based on Cognitive Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Compassion-Focused Therapy were summarized. It is believed that providing comprehensive theoretical and empirical knowledge related to self-criticism will contribute to future studies in the field.

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Emotion-Focused Mobile App for Promoting Self-Compassion, Self-Protection, and Self-Criticism

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Randomized controlled trial of emotion-focused training for helping professionals

Randomized controlled trial of emotion-focused training for helping professionals

Self-Criticism: Conceptualization, Assessment and Interventions

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