Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychophysiology

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.

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 & Julian F. Thayer: 1. Heart Rate Variability in Mental Health and Psychotherapy
4: Sadie J. Zacharek, John D. E. Gabrieli & Stefan G. Hofmann: Brain Plasticity and Prediction of Response in Psychotherapy
5: Travis Anderson & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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