Dissertation Research

Read my research on the roles of self-compassion and decentering in the relationship between potentially traumatic events and posttraumatic symptoms; the capacity of IFS meditation to increase state self-compassion and decentering; and the role of decentering in increasing self-compassion, in a trauma exposed sample.

TLDR: Cool research on self-compassion, decentering, and IFS meditation with folks who have been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their lives (AKA folks like most of us)!

Self-Compassion, Decentering, Trauma, and Internal Family Systems Meditation: Baseline and Intervention Analyses

Dissertation by Rakhel Shapiro, Ph.D.

Co-authors: Dr. Kevin Meehan, Dr. Sara Haden, Dr. Nicholas Papouchis, and Lyla Clark