Kate Lucre

Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy: An Exploratory Programme for People who Could Have a Diagnosis of ‘Personality Disorder’

Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy is a practical and case-illustrated handbook introducing an innovative new model of group-based psychotherapy. Developed for people with complex emotional needs who may attract a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’.

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Description

Traditionally, people with attachment and relational trauma have been excluded from longer-term psychological therapies on the basis that they are ‘hard to engage’ and considered ‘untreatable’. This new model of group psychotherapy is underpinned by the theory and practice of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with necessary adaptions to address the challenge of meeting the needs of individuals with complex trauma. This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of the five-phase model of Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy (CFGP), including
case vignettes and qualitative data from patients who have completed the programme.

Ideal for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health staff, this publication will be the first to offer clinicians a step-by-step guide to setting up and running CFGP groups alongside accessible theory and practice tips.

Audience

Clinical psychologists, psychological therapists, psychiatrists, mental health nurses and practitioners, including from NHS, criminal justice (prisons and secure care) and private sector; students of these professions.

Author

Dr Kate Lucre is a Birmingham-based Consultant Psychotherapist and Supervisor specialising in the use of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for complex attachment and relational trauma for groups and individuals. She has over 25 years’ experience working in statutory, NHS and social care organisations in the UK and overseas. She also runs workshops across the UK and internationally in CFT for Groups and Compassion Focused Staff Support and Supervision.

Kate is the founder of Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy (CFGP) for people who would attract a diagnosis of personality disorder and has published the only data in this model, recently completing a 7-year follow-up study to this original research programme. Kate has also developed Compassion Focused Staff Support and offers her model to staff in various settings in the UK and internationally, and is also involved in a number of UK-wide research projects, evaluating this model.

Details

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd

ISBN: 9781803883281

Publication date: March 2025

Pages: 220

Content

Foreword by Paul Gilbert
Preface

Introduction and guide to use the book

Phase 1: Assessment and Formulation
1.1 Initial engagement with patient

Phase 2: The Waiting-list Group
2.1 Waiting… waiting… waiting
2.2 Role of the therapist/conductor

Phase 3: The Preparation and Engagement Group
3.1 To prep or not to prep?
3.2 How it works
3.3-5 Modules 1 – 3
3.6 Closed and online group

Phase 4: CFGP – the therapy phase
4.1 Transitions and conflict
4.2 Getting ready
4.3-5 Compassionate transformation part 1-3
4.6 Integration, endings and brownies

Phase 5: The Moving On Group
5.1 Supporting individuation

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