Description:
People who hear voices often live in a constant world of internal and external threat; whether it's their voices making explicit threats, a feeling they're being watched, a conspiracy, or whether it's just the threat implicit in having their life influenced by outside forces.
What this means, at the physiological level, is that the entire brain-body system that has evolved to process and respond to threats is being constantly stimulated. And, of course, the more this system gets activated, the more sensitized it becomes.
As if this weren't problematic enough, associated diagnoses like ‘schizophrenia' carry severe social stigma, and many of those diagnosed will internalize this stigma to experience shame. What this brings is an additional layer of threat, linked to one's social position or social-rank.
Compassion Focused Therapy aims to help people regulate threat processing by building internal feelings of safeness and affiliation, and by providing contexts, practices and insights that facilitate the development of compassion to self, others, voices, and dissociated parts.
Intended Audience:
Clinicians, and case managers, and others providing mental health services.
Certificates:
American Psychological Association (APA)
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Family Service Agency of San Francisco dba Felton Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Felton Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Certifier Name: Schon Wade, Ed.d
Certifier Title: Training Coordinator
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