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Compassion Focused Therapy Publications 2024

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