Browsing Compassion by Author "Gilbert, Paul"
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A pilot feasibility study exploring the practising of compassionate imagery exercises in a nonclinical population
(2016)This study assessed the acceptability of practising compassionate imagery as an online task without clinician support. Participants completed questionnaires at baseline, after, and 6 months of follow-up. Participants engaged ... -
Affiliative and prosocial motives and emotions in mental health.
(2015)This paper argues that studies of mental health and wellbeing can be contextualized within an evolutionary approach that highlights the coregulating processes of emotions and motives. In particular, it suggests that, ... -
An evolutionary approach to emotion in mental health with a focus on affiliative emotions
(2015)Emotions evolved to guide animals in pursuing specific motives and goals (e.g., to find food, avoid harm, seek out sexual partners, rear offspring). They function as short-term alertors and regulators of behaviour and can ... -
Attitudes towards mental health problems scale: Confirmatory factor analysis and validation in the Portuguese population
(2016)Several studies about stigmatization and shame toward mental health problems have contributed to minimizing the impact of these negative attitudes on people diagnosed with mental illnesses, on their families and on their ... -
Body dysmorphic disorder: The functional and evolutionary context in phenomenology and a compassionate mind.
(2014)The descriptive phenomenology of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is well known in terms of the content of the beliefs, the attentional biases and the nature of the repetitive behaviors. Less has been written about the ... -
Body image and weight-related shame prospectively predict binge eating symptomology and weight outcomes: The value of deshaming approaches to weight management.
(2016)Background & Aims: Cross sectional associations suggest that BMI is associated with body image shame, which, in turn, is associated with negative self evaluations and loss of control of eating (binge eating symptomology) ... -
Compassion Motivations: Distinguishing Submissive Compassion From Genuine Compassion and its Association With Shame, Submissive Behavior, Depression, Anxiety and Stress.
(2014)Recent research has suggested that being compassionate and helpful to others is linked to well-being. However, people can pursue compassionate motives for different reasons, one of which may be to be liked or valued. ... -
Compassion-focused therapy: Preface and introduction for special section.
(2014)I am delighted to welcome you to this short, special edition on compassion-focused therapy (CFT). One of the core principles of CFT is that it is rooted in clinical science rather than any particular approach to therapy. ... -
The Early Memories of Warmth and Safeness Scale for adolescents: Cross-Sample Validation of the Complete and Brief Versions
(2017)This work presents psychometric analyses on the Early Memories of Warmth and Safeness Scale, which intends to evaluate the subjective perception of ones' early rearing experiences. Factor structure, measurement invariance, ... -
Exploring change processes in compassion focused therapy in psychosis: Results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial
(2013)Objectives: Compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed to stimulate capacities for soothing and affiliation to self and others as a way to regulate the threat system. This feasibility study aimed to assess the safety, ... -
Facial expressions depicting compassionate and critical emotions: the development and validation of a new emotional face stimulus set
(2014)Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set ... -
Fears of happiness and compassion in relationship with depression, alexithymia, and attachment security in a depressed sample
(2014)Objectives In a non-clinical population, fears of compassion and fear of happiness have both been found to be highly correlated with alexithymia and depression. This study sought to explore these processes and their links ... -
Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale: Psychometric properties and normative study.
(2015)Background: The Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS, Gilbert, Clarke, Hempel, Miles, & Irons, 2004, Br. J. Clin. Psychology, 43, 31) is a self-report instrument that measures self-criticism ... -
The impact of shame, self-criticism and social rank on eating behaviours in overweight and obese women participating in a weight management programme
(2017)Recent research has suggested that obesity is a stigmatised condition. Concerns with personal inferiority (social rank), shame and self-criticism may impact on weight management behaviours. The current study examined ... -
Measurement of external shame: An inside view
(2015)The aims of this study were to investigate the construct validity of the Other as Shamer scale (OAS) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and to examine the psychometric properties of its Italian version in a sample ... -
Negotiating in the world of mixed beliefs and value systems: A compassion-focused model
(Springer International, 2015)(from the chapter) The study of international negotiations is clearly part of the science of conflict and conflict resolution with a number of dedicated specialist journals supporting it. This chapter cannot review this ... -
A new therapeutic community: development of a compassion-focussed and contextual behavioural environment
(2015)Social relationships and communities provide the context and impetus for a range of psychological developments, from genetic expression to the development of core self-identities. This suggests a need to think about the ... -
Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare.
(2014)This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology ... -
Practice quality and effectiveness of a compassion training intervention: The Importance of embodying the compassionate self
(2018)Research has showed that compassion mind training (CMT) is effective on the promotion of well-being, however the impact of quality of the practice had never been explored. A recent study of the effect of a low intensity ... -
Predictors of painkiller dependence among people with pain in the general population
(2014)Objectives: Self-medication with painkillers is widespread and increasing, and evidence about influences on painkiller dependence is needed to inform efforts to prevent and treat problem painkiller use. Design: Online ...
