Developing Compassion in Compassion Focused Therapy

<p>Prosocial behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social dominance system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Guilt</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facilitating sorrow and regret in the perpetrator</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Defensive strategies evolved within status hierarchies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Guilt</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prosocial motivational states of mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Detect and respond to threats, signals of resources, and situations indicating safeness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Evolved to play a role in soothing processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promotes secure base and safe haven for comfort</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Empathy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By distinguishing drives to avoid bad things from drives for pleasure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Working on basic motivational systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Growth-focused advancement and development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By using breathing patterns to stimulate the vagal system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imagining a safe, compassionate other</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acting techniques to imagine compassionate self</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fear of being shamed through certain discoveries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To foster guilt in children</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Parasympathetic tone</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Showing a more fight-flight response in situations of helpfulness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facilitating grief for unmet desires and past traumas</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging a new identity with a motivational focus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Working on moral behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop body awareness of different emotions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Insight leading to compassion motivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning genetic origins of obesity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encouraging responsibility taking and practicing change-focused processes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As core to addressing human problems and behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By working with them as central components of the therapy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To facilitate better control of emotion through parasympathetic systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As a key element for individuals to engage with their own suffering and early losses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By emphasizing the courage and commitment involved in developing compassion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Parasympathetic systems for better emotional control.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By stimulating responsibility taking and capacities to feel guilt and remorse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As rooted in both courage and commitment with developing practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using them as key elements in the therapeutic process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shame focuses on repairing one's reputation, while guilt focuses on helping the injured party recover.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moral or prosocial behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Compassion is seen as an evolved, motivation-based, functional system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>De-shaming individuals who have behaved harmfully or neglectfully.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Guilt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focus on self and reputation repair vs. recognition of causing harm to others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To avoid causing harm via actions and repair it if done</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focus on repairing harm and reducing distress in the other vs. self-focused punishment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fostering prosocial motivational states of mind</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Focused on self and reputation repair vs. distress signals and empathic connection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Respond to threats, 2. Respond to signals of resources and rewards, 3. Indicate safeness and facilitate 'rest and digest'</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is involved in the soothing process in CFT, evolved with attachment, and activates the parasympathetic system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing a secure base and safe haven through caring relationships to promote self-soothing and compassion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It can lead to increased guilt, negative emotions, and even suicidal tendencies in individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To balance the activating threat and drive systems with the soothing parasympathetic system for emotional regulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seeking out good things, Achieving and activating, Affiliative focused, Soothing/safeness, Well-being, Threat-focused protection and safety seeking, Activating/inhibiting, Anger, anxiety, disgust, Drive, excitement, vitality, Content, safe, connected</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using certain breathing patterns designed to stimulate the vagal system, practicing affiliative and friendly facial expressions and voice tones</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Safety involves stopping bad things from happening, while safeness is the freedom 'to be' and to explore</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By encouraging clients to think about what they would like from a compassionate other and their own fears, blocks, and resistances</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Empathy, distress tolerance, mindfulness, body awareness, grounding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beliefs that 'compassion is weak and indulgent' or 'is not helpful'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Compromised parasympathetic tone affecting executive control and integration of brain systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Building compassion motivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helping the person experience sensations of slowing down and being present</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Profound effects on change process and shifting social mentalities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Helping individuals understand that the human brain is full of inbuilt problems with biases and conflicts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Show a more fight-or-flight profile in situations of helpfulness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By helping individuals to identify with common humanity and the troubles of the evolved tricky brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Severe trauma, genetic inclination, Asperger-like syndromes, complex learning difficulties, mental health problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enabling people to be more attentive to what is going on in their own minds and bodies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>human context</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>survival, advancement, reproduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>approaching problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>law and prevention</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>evolutionary approaches</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>responsibility taking</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>genuine nature of compassion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>evidence-based practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>grieving</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>compassion motivation training and cultivation</p> Signup and view all the answers