Compassion Focused Therapy's literature base continues to flourish and expand, building our knowledge and inspiring our practice. Below, you'll find links to the latest published research*, which has been compiled with a focus specifically on CFT. We have included hashtags to help highlight content and location.
Here is our research digest for research published in 2023
*At present, this list includes English language articles
Ah, S. A. A. K., Abbasi, G., & Zadegan, H. A. G. (2024)The Effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy on Guilt and Shame in Women with Eating Disorders. Journal of Health Promotion Management, 13 (1) #women #eatingdisorders #Iran
Calabria, L., & Marks, E. (2024). What Happens in Climate Cafés?: Exploring Responses to the Psychological Burdens of Climate Change in Seven UK Women. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. #climatechange #UK
Dawood, R., Vosper, J., Irons, C., Gibson, S., & Brown, G. (2024). Exploring the roles of compassion and post‐traumatic stress disorder on global distress after sexual trauma. British Journal of Clinical Psychology #PTSD #sexualtrauma
Hickey, T., Strohmaier, S., Fossey, E., & Heriot-Maitland, C. (2024). The Acceptability and Impact of a Video on Compassion Focused Therapy as a Psycho-Educative Tool to Deepen Awareness around Voice-Hearing. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 9 (2) #voicehearing #psychoeducation #Australia
Erekson, D. M., Griner, D., & Beecher, M. E. (2024). Compassion focused therapy for groups: Transdiagnostic treatment for turbulent times. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1-28. #groups #USA
Fraser, M. I., & Gregory, K. (2024). Applying a process-based therapy approach to compassion focused therapy: A synergetic alliance. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 32, 100754. #theory #Australia
Jameson, P. (2024). Incorporating compassion-focused therapy into CAT: Theory, perspectives, and applications. In Brummer, L., Cavieres, M. & Tan, R. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Oxford University Press
Karami, P., Ghanifar, M. H., & Ahi, G. (2024). Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy in Improving Distress Tolerance and Self-Compassion in Women with Experiences of Marital Infidelity. Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling (JARAC), 6(2), 27-35. #therapy #maritalinfidelity #Iran
Kaye, A. M. (2024) Compassion-Focused Mentoring: An Antidote to Adverse Faculty-Student Mentoring Outcomes? OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 9(2) #mentoring #students #USA
Kim, J. J., Sherwell, C., Parker, S. L., & Kirby, J. N. (2024). Compassion training influences heart-rate variability within severe depression. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 16, 100760. #depression #HRV #compassiontraining #Australia
Kirby, J. N., Day, J., & Gilbert, P. (2024). Social rank and compassion: How insecure striving, social safeness and fears of compassion mediate the relationship between masculinity, depression and anxiety. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. #socialrank #theory #masculinity
Kirby, J. N., Hoang, A., & Crimston, C. R. (2024). A Brief Compassion Focused Therapy Intervention Can Increase Moral Expansiveness: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness, 1-13. #RCT #CFTintervention #morality #Australia
Lucre, K., Ashworth, F., Copello, A., Jones, C., & Gilbert, P. (2024). Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for attachment and relational trauma: Engaging people with a diagnosis of personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. #groups #attachmentandrelationaltrauma #personalitydisorderdiagnosis
Lynch, S., Finnerty, C., Pender, R., Lowry, D., O’Meara, Y., & Brennan, D. (2024). The COMFORT trial: a randomised control trial comparing group-based compassion-focused therapy techniques and breathing pattern retraining with treatment as usual on the psychological functioning of patients diagnosed with cancer recurrence. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 34 (1) #cancer #breathingpractice #Ireland
Marques, C. C., Palmeira, L., Castilho, P., Rodrigues, D., Mayr, A., Pina, T. S., Telma Pereira, A., Castelo-Branco, M & Goss, K. (2024). Online Compassion Focused Therapy for overeating: Feasibility and acceptability pilot study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57(2), 410-422. #onlinetherapy #pilotstudy #overeating
Mehrabi, N., Amiri, H., Omidi, A., & Sarvizadeh, M. (2024). The Effectiveness of Group Compassion-Focused Therapy on Body Image and Interpersonal Stress among Women with Breast Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial. IJ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences #breastcancer #Iran
Munafo, J. (2024). The Heavy Burden of Judgement: Cultivating Compassion with People Accessing Healthcare Services for Support with Weight Management. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 9(1), 1-10. #weight #stigma #UK
Rachwal, F., & Gredecki, N. (2024). A Phenomenological Investigation into the Use of Therapist Self-disclosure in Compassion-Focused Therapy With Forensic Clients. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 0306624X241227409. #selfdiscolure #IPA #UK
Steffen, P & Moss, D. (2024) (eds) Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychophysiology: Theory, Assessment, and Practice. Oxford University Press. See Chapters 1, 10, 16 and 17.
Swee, M. B., Corman, A. G., Margolis, J. M., & Dick, A. M. (2024). Compassion-Focused Therapy for the Treatment of ICD-11–Defined Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. The American Journal of Psychotherapy #therapy #complexPTSD #USA
Taylor, J., & Hocken, K. (2024). Illuminating the dark side: Life story and formulation work to understand criminogenic capacities and human harmfulness. Abuse: An International Impact Journal, 5(1), 46-60. #formulation #forensics
Varley, D., Sherwell, C. S., & Kirby, J. (2024). Brief Compassion Focused Therapy Reduces Fears of Compassion Irrespective of Individual Differences in Attachment. Pre-print. #attachment #fearsofcompassion #Australia
Vrabel, K. R., Waller, G., Goss, K., Wampold, B., Kopland, M., & Hoffart, A. (2024). Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setting. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104480. #eatingdisorders #RCT