The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self - Softcover

Irons, Chris; Beaumont, Dr Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472135903 ISBN 13: 9781472135902

Publisher: Robinson, 2017

Synopsis

A practical workbook packed with exercises to help you develop compassion for yourself and others.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Chris Irons is a clinical psychologist, researcher, author and trainer. He is co-director of Balanced Minds (www.balancedminds.com), a London-based organisation providing compassion focused psychological interventions for individuals and organisations. He is the author of a number of books, including The Compassionate Mind Workbook.

Dr Elaine Beaumont is a psychotherapist and lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Salford. She works with a range of organisations and charities primarily working with young people who have experienced trauma. Elaine provides workshops regarding mental health and wellbeing for a variety of organisations and her research has been presented worldwide http://www.beaumontpsychotherapy.co.uk/

Elaine co-authored The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self in 2017 and The Compassionate Mind App in 2020.

From the Back Cover

There is increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for yourself and others can have a profound impact on your physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns with inferiority, shame and self-criticism can have a very negative impact on physical and mental health.

The Compassionate Mind Workbook is a book for anyone with an interest in how compassion - in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches - may help us to understand and, ultimately, try to alleviate suffering.

Using both Buddhist practices and Western psychological science, this step-by-step guide will enable you to build your understanding of yourself, to develop ways to work with whatever difficulties you're struggling with in life and will introduce you to a variety of CFT exercises that give rise to a compassionate mind.

Elaine Beaumont is a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and Europe-approved Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Practitioner. Elaine incorporates Compassion Focused Therapy into her clinical work. She is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Salford, where her research explores the impact Compassion Focused Therapy has on individuals suffering with trauma-related symptoms.

Chris Irons is a Clinical Psychologist for the NHS in London. In his clinical work, he uses Compassion Focused Therapy with people suffering from a variety of mental health problems. Chris is a board member of the Compassionate Mind Foundation and regularly presents to audiences on CFT and more broadly, the science of compassion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Robinson
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472135903
• ISBN 13: 9781472135902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400