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Unconditional positive regard is one of the three important elements in counselling practice. It adds warmth to counseling and psychotherapy, and provides the power to change. Compassion Focused Therapy emphasizes cultivating self-compassion, increasing awareness of self-care, and reducing self-criticism. This course is based on Paul Gilbert's Compassion Focused Therapy, incorporating its core principles into art therapy. If you believe that psychotherapy cannot rely solely on rational analysis and correction, this therapy might be a suitable alternative for you, as compassion provides another humanistic therapeutic direction. This course starts from the basics by systematically reviews the principle and procedures of compassion focused therapy; and integrates its operation with art therapy. Students will master a comprehensive and systematic art therapy intervention upon completion of this course, thereby enhancing self-compassion, strengthening care for others, and helping achieve attain self-compassion.

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