Compassion in a T-Shirt

[This episode with Terri Moyers is released to compliment the episode with Stephen Rollnick released last Friday (9 August 2024). The original YouTube episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/KRkilr1n3ek ]

Theresa B. Moyers, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, where she conducts research on treatments for addictive behaviors, with a focus on motivational interviewing (MI). Her primary interests are identifying the active ingredients of MI as well optimal methods for disseminating it in addictions settings.

Dr. Moyers has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and has presented on MI and addictions treatment in 16 countries. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. In addition to her academic pursuits, she trains and competes with her border collie in the sport of dog agility.

Her most recent book is with Prof Bill Miller, titled Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills that Improve Client Outcomes.

TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK:

Compassion in a T-Shirt: In Session

LINKS:

Terri's email: [email protected]

Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills that Improve Client Outcomes. (Miller and Moyers, 2021).

https://www.amazon.com.au/Effective-Psychotherapists-Clinical-Improve-Outcomes/dp/1462545351

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-10: A Brief Measure for Routine Psychotherapy Outcome and Progress Assessment (Halford and Frost, 2021).

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behaviour-change/article/abs/depression-anxiety-stress-scale10-a-brief-measure-for-routine-psychotherapy-outcome-and-progress-assessment/2259B3A2EB360EE3BD007AAFCD73ED70

If you would like to learn more about Compassion Focused Therapy, you can find Dr Stan Steindl's book The Gifts of Compassion here:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Gifts-Compassion-understand-overcome-suffering/dp/1925644480

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It is an absolute honour and privilege to speak with Professor Stephen Rollnick. Steve is a clinical psychologist and Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. Alongside Professor Bill Miller, he co-founded motivational interviewing (MI). Stephen's career has been remarkable, spanning clinical service, training people, and researching how to have helpful conversations across various settings and around the world.

Stephen has profoundly influenced my professional journey. His seminal book, Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior (1991), was published just as I was finishing my undergraduate studies and moving into postgraduate clinical psychology. My PhD focused on using MI to work with veterans experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence, and during that time, Steve and Bill published the second edition of their book in 2002. The third edition came in 2013, and now we have the 2023 fourth edition, Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow.

In addition to these pivotal works, Stephen has authored and co-authored several other influential books on MI and its applications in healthcare, schools, and sports. (Check the links in the description for more on Stephen’s books.)

Currently, Stephen's twin interests lie in sport and healthcare, with a focus on helping people flourish. He takes on projects aimed at improving wellbeing, togetherness, and performance, all through the lens of motivational interviewing.

In our conversation, we delve into topics such as motivational interviewing, compassion, empathy, sympathy, how to effectively give advice, and the concept of helpfulness—how we can best be helpful while reducing the chances of unintentionally causing harm.

TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK:

Compassion in a T-Shirt: In Session

LINKS:

Professor Steve Rollnick Website

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow (Miller & Rollnick, 2023)

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Rollnick et al., 2022)

Motivational Interviewing in Schools: Conversations to Improve Behavior and Learning (Rollnick et al., 2016)

Coaching Athletes to Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports (Rollnick et al., 2019)

The Skilled Helper : A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping (Egan, 2018)

If you would like to learn more about Compassion Focused Therapy, you can find Dr Stan Steindl's book The Gifts of Compassion here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Gifts-Compassion-understand-overcome-suffering/dp/1925644480

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-steindl-150a5264/

Website: https://www.stansteindl.com/

YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/sEQZfUEutXk

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Join us for an insightful conversation with Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, the pioneering mind behind Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). In this episode, Professor Gilbert delves deep into the heart of CFT, discussing the integration of psychological and psychophysiological sciences, neuroscience, and wisdom traditions, all through an evolutionary lens. 

Highlights from this episode include: 

• The Foundations of CFT: Understanding our evolved emotional processing systems, particularly the threat, drive, and soothing-affiliative systems. 
• Recent Research: An exploration of Professor Gilbert's recent paper, "Threat, safety, safeness and social safeness 30 years on," and the crucial distinction between safety and safeness. 
• Memorable Aphorisms: Key quotes from Professor Gilbert that encapsulate core aspects of CFT, such as "The mind is like a spotlight, not that which it shines upon" and "Compassion is the courage to descend into the reality of the human experience." 
• Threat Detection and Response: Discussing the types of threats (external and internal) and how they activate our threat system. 
• Safety vs. Safeness: Unpacking the differences between safety (protection) and safeness (expansion and freedom), and how cultivating social safeness can improve mental and physical health. 
• Self-Criticism and Safety Behaviours: How self-criticism can be a form of safety seeking behaviour and its impact on our well-being. 
• Social Safeness and Attachment: The role of social signals in promoting a sense of safeness and the challenges of cultivating this for those with trauma or neglect. 
• Guilt and Compassion: The evolution of guilt as a prosocial emotion and its relationship to safeness and social affiliation. 
• Integrating Sciences: The importance of an integrated biopsychosocial approach in psychotherapy and the implications for therapists. 

Professor Gilbert also shares where you can find more of his work and the upcoming Compassionate Mind Foundation conference. 

Don't miss this enriching discussion! 

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TARGETED PLAYLIST: 

Compassion in a T-Shirt: In Session 

LINKS: 

Threat, safety, safeness and social safeness 30 years on: Fundamental dimensions and distinctions for mental health and well-being

Caring and the Evolution of Guilt: A Biopsychosocial Approach to a Pro-Social Emotion

An Evolution- and Compassion-Informed Biopsychosocial Approach to the Challenge of Building an Integrated Science for Psychotherapy

Compassionate Mind Foundation

Links to all of Paul Gilbert’s books (and many other helpful resources) can be found at the CMF website at the ‘resources’ link

If you would like to learn more about Compassion Focused Therapy, you can find Dr Stan Steindl's book The Gifts of Compassion here.

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YOUTUBE LINK URL: 

https://youtu.be/w6FLW1o_wI4 

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Dr Nicola Petrocchi, psychologist and psychotherapist trained at APC-SPC, holds a doctorate in Psychology and Social Neurosciences at La Sapienza University and a visiting scholarship at Boston University where he carried out an experimental study on Loving Kindness Meditation with depressed patients under the supervision of Professor Stefan Hofman. 

After more than 8 years of collaboration and continuous training with Professor Paul Gilbert (creator of CFT), Niki founded Compassionate Mind Italia, the only Italian association recognised by the English foundation (Compassionate Mind UK) for the diffusion, research and training in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). 

Nicola is trainer and supervisor of CFT, translator and editor of Paul Gilbert's book Compassion Focused Therapy, Distinctive Features, and collaborator with Paul Gilbert in conducting training courses in Italy and England, and in numerous research projects investigating heart rate variability (HRV) as a physiological index of the activation of compassion. 

Niki is the author of numerous articles and chapters in the international arena and, together with James Kirby and Beatrice Baldi, author of the first CFT practice guide, Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy: A Practice Manual for Clinicians (2023). Niki is also the lead author on a recent meta-analysis of compassion focused therapy randomised controlled trials, which is the topic of our conversation today! 

TIME STAMPS: 

3:15 Dr Petrocchi's journey to compassion 

24:54 An explainer of meta-analysis 

38:02 The main findings: Effectiveness of CFT with negative outcomes, depression, self-criticism and compassion 

47:21 Moderator effects for negative outcomes 

1:06:00 Moderator effects for depression 

1:12:38 Moderator effects for self-criticism 

1:18:01 Moderator effects for compassion 

1:27:58 Exploring heterogeneity and tests of significance 

TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK: 

Compassion in a T-Shirt: In Session 

LINKS: 

The impact of compassion-focused therapy on positive and negative mental health outcomes: Results of a series of meta-analyses. (Petrocchi et al,, 2023)  

Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy: A Practice Manual for Clinicians (Petrocchi, Kirby, and Baldi, 2023)  

The Current and Future Role of Heart Rate Variability for Assessing and Training Compassion (Kirby, Doty, Petrocchi, and Gilbert, 2017)

If you would like to learn more about Compassion Focused Therapy, you can find Dr Stan Steindl's book The Gifts of Compassion here. 

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YOUTUBE VIDEO URL: 

https://youtu.be/_q2qaoTzGm8 

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In this episode of Compassion in a T-Shirt, I welcome Associate Professor James Kirby, a leading figure in compassion research. James Kirby combines his extensive experience as a clinical psychologist and researcher to offer unique insights into the science and art of compassion. 

Drawing from his extensive research, as well as his recent book, Choose Compassion, James discusses a plethora of recent advances in the science of compassion, some of the most interesting findings in others' research as well as his own, considerations around men and compassion, and much more. 

We also discuss the transition that is underway from our podcast collaboration--The Compassion Initiative Podcast--and our move towards separate projects: my move to consolidating Compassion in a T-Shirt into a YouTube channel and podcast, and his move towards transforming our previous podcast into the Compassionate Mind Research Group Podcast. 

James is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. He co-directs the Compassionate Mind Research Group and is a recognised expert featured on radio, podcasts, articles, and television. 

Join us as we delve into the transformative power of compassion with someone who truly understands its depth and breadth. Don't miss this enlightening conversation with Associate Professor James Kirby! 

TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK: 

Compassion in a T-Shirt: In Session 

LINKS: 

Compassionate Mind Research Group

Choose Compassion: Why it matters and how it works (Kirby, 2022)

Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy: A Practice Manual for Clinicians (Petrocchi, Kirby, & Baldi, 2024)

Social rank and compassion: How insecure striving, social safeness and fears of compassion mediate the relationship between masculinity, depression and anxiety (Kirby, Day, & Gilbert, 2024)

If you would like to learn more about Compassion Focused Therapy, you can find Dr Stan Steindl's book The Gifts of Compassion here.  

Say hi on social: 

Facebook 

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Website

YOUTUBE VIDEO URL:

https://youtu.be/TvNk9HttylM 

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Note this description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in no way obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support! 

Welcome to Compassion in a T-Shirt, a podcast exploring the science and practice of compassion. Offers clear and practical advice on how to cultivate compassion and self-compassion from experts in the field.

Life can be difficult, and this podcast is designed to help.