Dr. Allison Kelly
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Body image, eating disorders, disordered eating, compassion, self-compassion, mindfulness, shame, self-criticism, self-compassion and coping, social factors contributing to body image difficulties, flexible attitudes around eating, appearance comparison, social media and appearance comparison, interventions to mitigate negative effects, psychology of climate change, compassionate climate change messages, mental health treatment, post-secondary education students seeking mental health treatment, interventions and engagement of people in mental health treatment using compassion
Media
Do Other People’s Failures Make You More Self-Compassionate?
Greater Good Magazine, September 4, 2019Online
Biography
Allison Kelly is the director of the Self-Attitudes Lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Queen’s University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Toronto General Hospital’s Eating Disorders Program before joining the University of Waterloo as a faculty member in 2012. She conducts and supervises research on topics related to self-compassion, self-criticism, shame, disordered eating, and body image. Kelly is also interested in the factors that interfere with people being self-compassionate, being compassionate to others, and receiving compassion from others.