31 © The British Psychological Society – ISSN 0269-6975 THIS STUDY aims to explore differences in treatment outcome measures, following a traumatic incident, of either Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) or CBT coupled with using Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) techniques. CBT is a treatment which challenges the way individuals think and behave, which has been found to be highly effective in tr...

Compassionate mind training (CMT) was developed for people with high shame and self-criticism, whose problems tend to be chronic, and who find self-warmth and self-acceptance difficult and/or frightening. This paper offers a short overview of the role of shame and self-criticism in psychological difficulties, the importance of considering different types of affect system (activating versus soot...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of compassionate mind training (cmt) on symptoms of depression and anxiety in iranian depressed sufferers . method: nineteen depressed patients aged 20 to 40 (beck depression inventory value≥20) were randomly assigned into two groups. the experimental group participated in 12 sessions of group therapy based on paul gilbert’s ...

Mounting research has supported the beneficial effects of compassion-based interventions for improving psychosocial and physiological well-being mental health. Teachers present a high risk professional stress, which negatively impacts their health performance. It is crucial to make compassion cultivation focus in educational settings, supporting teachers coping with school context’s challenges,...

This paper presents a series of case studies to explore the understanding, acceptance and value of compassionate mind training (CMT) with psychotic voice hearers. We were interested in the degree to which such people are able to access and feel the positive emotions of 'warmth' and 'contentment' to become more self-compassionate. We also explored how CMT affected participants' hostile voices, t...