The COVID-19 pandemic has been really dragging on. And everyone is feeling it. There is an ever-present sense of threat and foreboding. in this video, Dr Stan Steindl summarises some recent research exploring the relationships between our perceived threat of COVID-19 and our mental health and social safeness outcomes...as well as the role fears of compassion might play in those relationships. And, of course, fears of compassion play a very important role indeed.

If you would like to access the paper described in the video, titled "Fears of compassion magnify the harmful effects of threat of COVID-19 on mental health and social safeness across 21 countries", you can find a link to the abstract here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpp.2601