Healing after childhood sexual abuse with compassion focused therapy

The Compassion Initiative: Just Two Guys in Brisbane talking Compassion. www.thecompassioninitiative.com.au

Compassion focused therapy (CFT) was developed to help people who experience high levels of shame and self-criticism, and has been found to be effective in reducing these difficult aspects of human suffering across a range of presenting problems. Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse can experience very painful shame, as well as self-hating self-criticism, which can also perpetuate on going symptoms of post-traumatic stress. However, there hasn’t been a systematic investigation of CFT as an intervention for survivors of childhood sexual abuse…until now! In this video I discuss our recent University of Queensland study, spearheaded by the talented and compassionate clinician-researcher, Dr Lisa McLean, in which she and myself, along with Dr Matthew Bambling, carried out a preliminary investigation into group-based CFT for adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK: Compassion in a T-Shirt ARTICLES MENTIONED: McLean, L., Steindl, S.R. & Bambling, M. (2022). Compassion Focused Group Therapy for Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: a Preliminary Investigation. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01837-3 Au, T. M., Sauer-Zavala, S., King, M. W., Petrocchi, N., Barlow, D. H., & Litz, B. T. (2017). Compassion-based therapy for trauma-related shame and posttraumatic stress: Initial evaluation using a multiple baseline design. Behavior Therapy, 48(2), 207–221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2016.11.012 Lucre, K. M., & Corten, N. (2013). An exploration of group compassion-focused therapy for personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86(4), 387–400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02068.x Naismith, I., Ripoll, K., & Pardo, V. M. (2020). Group compassion-based therapy for female survivors of intimate-partner violence and gender-based violence: A pilot study. Journal of Family Violence, 36(2), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-019-00127-2 Say hi on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drstansteindl Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanSteindl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_stan_steindl/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-steindl-150a5264/ Website: https://www.stansteindl.com/ YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/PIKP5el0i0w *Affiliate Disclaimer: Note this description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in no way obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support! Video hashtags compassion, self-compassion, compassion focused therapy, childhood sexual abuse, trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, ptsd, shame, self-criticism