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In recent years it has become common for psychotherapists to use psychophysiological approaches such as biofeedback as a part of their therapy. This book provide a guide to professionals in the field on how to effectively integrate psychotherapy and psychophysiology.
List of contents
- Section One: Theory
- 1: Paul Gilbert: An Evolution and Compassion Informed Biopsychosocial Approach to the Challenge of Building an Integrated Science for Psychotherapy
- 2: Rebekkah Matheson: Neuroscientific Principles Underlying Psychotherapy
- 3: Julia Wendt and Julian F. Thayer: 1. Heart Rate Variability in Mental Health and Psychotherapy
- 4: Sadie J. Zacharek, John D. E. Gabrieli and Stefan G. Hofmann: Brain Plasticity and Prediction of Response in Psychotherapy
- 5: Travis Anderson and Patrick Steffen: Affect as a Foundation for How We Know and Understand the World: A Framework for Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychophysiology
- Section Two: Assessment
- 7: Dawson Hedges and Patrick Steffen: Approaching Psychopathology from a Psychophysiological Perspective: Using Dimensional Diagnostic Approaches as Frameworks to Integrate Psychotherapy and Psychophysiology
- 8: Brian M. Hughes, Siobhán Howard and Aisling M. Costello,: The Biology of Personality and Stress: Cardiovascular Reactivity as Central to Human Coping
- 9: Patrick Steffen and Joseph A. Olson: Using the RDoC Framework to Conceptualize and Assess Personality: A Model of Personality for Psychotherapy/Psychophysiology Integration
- Section Three: Intervention
- 10: Paul Lehrer: Therapist Flexibility: Why a Psychophysiological Component in Psychotherapy is Important
- 11: Paul Gilbert: Compassion as an Integrative and Integrating Therapeutic Process
- 12: Timothy W. Smith and Jenny M. Cundiff,: An Interpersonal Perspective on the Physiological Stress Response: Implications for Therapeutic Interventions in Coronary Heart Disease
- 13: Donald Moss: The Most Beautiful Man: The Integration of Hypnosis and Biofeedback
- 14: Richard S. Gevirtz: Integrating Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- 15: Inna Khazan: Breathing, Heart Rate Variability, and their Application in Psychotherapy
- 16: Nicola Petrocchi and Cristina Ottaviani: Compassionate Bodies, Compassionate Minds: Psychophysiological Concomitants of Compassion-Focused Therapy
- 17: Chase S. Sherwell and James N. Kirby: Compassion Focused Therapy and Heart Rate Variability
- 18: Donald Moss: Ethical Principles and Practice Standards in Psychophysiological Psychotherapy
About the author
Patrick R. Steffen, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University where he has served as the Director of Clinical Training and as an Alcuin Fellow in the Honors Program. He received his PhD in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of Miami and was a post-doctoral fellow in cardiovascular behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and is a past president of that organization and serves as Associate Editor for the journal Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. His research interests are in behavioral medicine and integrating biofeedback approaches into psychotherapy.
Dr. Donald Moss is Professor and Dean, College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, at Saybrook University, Pasadena, CA. He is a clinical health psychologist, certified in biofeedback and hypnosis. Moss is the ethics chair for the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance. He is the education chair, publications chair, and president-elect for the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH). He previously served as president of SCEH, president of Division 30 (hypnosis) of the American Psychological Association, and president of AAPB.
Summary
In recent years it has become common for psychotherapists to use psychophysiological approaches such as biofeedback as a part of their therapy. This book provide a guide to professionals in the field on how to effectively integrate psychotherapy and psychophysiology.
