The intervention
cancer
CANCER
There is one active arm to this study, involving a combined intervention of CFT and BPR, over a 6-week period by way of an online platform. CFT is an integrated and multimodal approach that draws from evolutionary, social, developmental and Buddhist psychology and neuroscience. One of its key concerns is to use compassionate mind training to help people develop and work with experiences of inner warmth, safeness and soothing, via compassion and self-compassion. Compassionate mind training refers to specific activities designed to develop compassionate attributes and skills, particularly those that influence affect regulation. These issues are regularly affected in cancer diagnoses, which makes it a well-placed psychotherapeutic intervention for this patient cohort. The intervention will be delivered by the same psychologist (SL) who works in the specialist area of Psycho-Oncology who has also undergone specialist training in BPR.