PSYCH257 Lecture : Self Attitudes Pt. 2
6 Apr 2013
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Self-compassion: what is it, why build it, and what to consider. Framework for understanding vulnerability and maintaining factors common across disorders. Prevention and treatment approaches likely to help with a range of disorders. A way of looking at similarities across the disorders: gilberts theory is a transdiagnostic approach. Affiliation, care, and warmth as primary evolved threat regulator. Absence or inconsistency of these cues at times of distress early on shame, self-criticism, under-developed soothing system. Self-protective strategies to manage shame rely on threat and drive systems, not soothing system. Theory that relating to self compassionately same physiological effects as others being compassionate. Can be scary means facing and often sharing shame, relying less on old self-protective strategies, and cultivating new ways of coping with distress. Stable, personality trait associated with memories of parental warmth: but also malleable to intervention, things that we can do to help people bexome more self compassionate.
