A brief compassion focused therapy group for outpatients with psychosis

Charles Heriot-Maitland, Caroline Lawlor, Nadine Keen, Fergus Kane, Hassan Jafari and Emmanuelle Peters

Psychosis, 2025, vol. 17, issue 1, 82-94

Abstract: BackgroundA service evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of a six-session compassion focused therapy (CFT) group for outpatients with psychosis was conducted.MethodsFourteen groups were run across two services, with different facilitators following the same protocol. One hundred and nine clients were recruited, of whom 80 completed groups, and 71–76 completed measures of key social processes targeted by CFT.ResultsOverall attendance and satisfaction ratings were good. A thematic analysis of feedback suggested a range of therapeutic benefits. A mixed-effects model with maximum likelihood estimation, incorporating random effects at two hierarchical levels, showed significant improvements in pre-post measures of social safeness (p

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2024.2402826

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