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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 8d

My PhD student Teagan Lloyd-Collins just had her first pub accepted in Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review!

A Compassion-Focused Approach to Support Parents After Preterm Birth

It’s available now as a preprint here:

osf.io/preprints/psya…

Congratulations!

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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract

Come join this exciting community of researchers

Nov 24-25 - Register now!

#philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky

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ASPP 2025 Melbourne

Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025

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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 27d

📢Keynote speakers📢: Claire O'Callaghan, Cammi Murrup-Stewart, James Kirby, Lu Teng, Peter Godfrey-Smith

@claireocallaghan.bsky.social @cmurrupstewart.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @petergs.bsky.social

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Aug 16

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology

Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Researchers
from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany:
@annimekelburg.bsky.social
@katfoerster.bsky.social
@laramaliske.bsky.social
@kanske.bsky.social
from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia:
@jameskirby.bsky.social

Journal of Affective Disorders

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Redirecting

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Jul 8

A complete honour to be giving the Kurt Aaron Oration for 2025 as part of the PAH Health Symposium. This year the theme is, “Innovation, inspiration and creation: It starts with a spark”. 26-29 August 2025 www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/hospital-and...

PAH Health Symposium

Join us for Queensland’s premier health and research conference.

www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au

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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Dr. Allison Kelly presented a poster at #CPA2025 sharing findings that #SelfCompassion indirectly promoted more help-seeking intentions and motives by facilitating greater engagement with personal feelings of distress. Thank you to everyone who came to check it out!

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain
Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Jun 18

Super cool to have our work spotlighted in this great piece in Greater Good Science Center on how to help dads. All credit to Daniel, Vincent Mancini, Trevor Mazzucchelli, and Jack for leading the work!
What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood?

New research finds that self-compassion and mindfulness can help new fathers stay well and bond with their babies.

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Jun 16

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life

Everything we offer at Greater Good is based on scientific research. Now that work is being threatened.

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ACBS @myacbs.bsky.social · Jun 4

Have you used the Three Circle Model in your work? A new digital measure has been developed & tested with young adults, showing promising validity & reliability for capturing these systems dynamically in both clinical & research settings.
Drop your experiences & questions below
zurl.co/aQDtt
#ACBS

Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Apr 10

📣Our April issue is live!

Cover: Vicarious & collective memory

Also in this issue:
🫂Compassion as a transdiagnostic mental health target
⚖️Evaluating expertise & implications for legal contexts
⚙️Cognitive mechanics

Read more: go.nature.com/4csm3JC

#psychology #psychscisky

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · May 11

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A fantastic study led by my PhD student Dylan Moloney-Gibb with Chase Sherwell, Jamin Day, Sasha Lynn.

The findings support the use of this measure as a brief, dynamic scale that captures central CFT theory & can be easily used with clients or in research contexts.

Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Mar 17

An absolute honour to be speaking as part of this panal at the Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand at the Brisbane Convention Centre today. Our symposium was titled Beyone Birth: Compassionate Care After Birth Trauma.

James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thanks Courtney

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Mar 5

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being

Review by James N. Kirby (@jameskirby.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/43lyXqc
PDF: rdcu.be/echYo

#psychology #clinicalpsych #psychscisky

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just out now in @natrevpsych.bsky.social “Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology

Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...

www.nature.com

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Feb 26

www.psychologytools.com/articles/ins...

Insights: Helping Self-Critical Parents Cultivate Self-Compassion And Why It’s Important – Dr James Kirby | Psychology Tools

We met with Dr J Kirby, co-author of A brief compassion focused therapy intervention can help self-critical parents and their children (2023)

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Feb 20

New paper out looking at self-compassion in Dad’s. Led by a super star team including Daniel van Heerden, Trevor G. Mazzucchelli, Jack D. Brett and Vincent O. Mancini. Lucky to be part of the ride

Some very cool stuff in here. Open access, just click on the link

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fathers’ Self-Compassion and Child Attachment Quality: Testing a Sequential Indirect Effect via Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Loneliness, and Psychological Distress in Two Paternal Samples - Mindfu...

Objectives Self-compassion has emerged as a promising treatment target to promote healthy parent–child relationships, though mostly in maternal samples. The mechanisms through which self-compassion ma...

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Feb 20

Here are some preliminary sketches we are going to use for a new Compassion Focused Therapy resource we have coming out soon…..super excited!!!! 🔵🔴🟢 illustrations by the brilliant Nicole Lekach

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Feb 10

Had an excellent time at the 2025 Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM) on the Good Cost. My Keynote was on Compassion as a Transdiagnostic Target to help with Mental Health @UQPsych. Highly recommend this conference which will be in Auckland 2026!

James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Feb 10

Congratulations Ton-Lin for successfully passing your confirmation today. His PhD is focused on the institutional factors influencing compassion in healthcare. Very lucky to have the expertise of Prof Nathan Consedine as Associate supervisor! And yes Ton-Lin much taller than me

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Jan 4

Just out, led by Dr Chase Sherwell with a great team including Dr Deanna Varley and team at Minds & Hearts. We looked at daily compassion practices for Autistic adults assessing self report, experience sampling and heart rate variability link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Examining the Impact of a Brief Compassion Focused Intervention on Everyday Experiences of Compassion in Autistic Adults Through Psychophysiology and Experience Sampling - Applied Psychophysiology and...

Autistic adults experience greater rates of anxiety and depression compared to the general population. Compassion-focused therapy interventions, aimed at promoting self-compassion capabilities, have s...

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Dec 20

New paper coming out where we evaluated a multimodal approach to investigating self-paced compassion focused interventions for autistic adults.

Before our paper is officially published, check out this AI produced 4-min podcast highlighting the findings on.soundcloud.com/k4buxmq4bEzU...

Podcast summary of Sherwell et al 2025

Listen to Podcast summary of Sherwell et al 2025 by Chasesherwell #np on #SoundCloud

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thanks Chris!

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