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 A 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)
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcps0000193

Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy: A Practice Manual for Clinicians (Petrocchi, Kirby, and Baldi, 2023)
https://www.amazon.com.au/Essentials-Compassion-Focused-Therapy-Clinicians/dp/1032565543

The Current and Future Role of Heart Rate Variability for Assessing and Training Compassion (Kirby, Doty, Petrocchi, and Gilbert, 2017)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5340770/

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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