Browsing Compassion by Title
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Practical compassions: repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare.
(2014)This article reports an exploratory study of the concept of compassion in the work of 20 mental health practitioners in a UK Midlands facility. Using notions of practice derived from phenomenology and Bourdieusian sociology ... -
Practice quality and effectiveness of a compassion training intervention: The Importance of embodying the compassionate self
(2018)Research has showed that compassion mind training (CMT) is effective on the promotion of well-being, however the impact of quality of the practice had never been explored. A recent study of the effect of a low intensity ... -
Predictors of painkiller dependence among people with pain in the general population
(2014)Objectives: Self-medication with painkillers is widespread and increasing, and evidence about influences on painkiller dependence is needed to inform efforts to prevent and treat problem painkiller use. Design: Online ... -
The design of compassionate care.
(2014)Aims and objectives. To investigate the tension between individual and organisational responses to contemporary demands for compassionate interactions in health care. Background. Health care is often said to need more ... -
The evolution and social dynamics of compassion.
(2015)The inner processes that make compassion possible arose from the evolutionary advantage of caring for others, especially offspring, kin and inÇÉgroup allies. This paper explores issues in defining compassion and its link ... -
The impact of self-criticism and self-reasurance on weight related positive and negative affect and well-being in participants of a commercial weight management programme
(2015)Introduction: Weight stigma can potentially undermine weight management by increasing self-criticism. We recently examined the links between external shame, self-criticism, social comparison, negative affect and eating ... -
The impact of shame, self-criticism and social rank on eating psychopathology in overweight and obese members of a commercial weight management programme
(2015)Background: Research has highlighted the important role social rank, shame and self-criticism play in vulnerability to and maintenance of eating disorders. However, it is not clear if these factors are also important for ... -
The Italian version of the Social Comparison Rating Scale and the Submissive Behaviour Scale: Reliability and validity in a sample of adolescents
(2013)Social rank theory argues that social comparison and submissive behaviour are mechanisms by which humans and animals form themselves into social ranks. Design: this study assesses the psychometric properties of Italian ... -
The Language of Compassion in Acute Mental Health Care
(2013)In this article we examine the language of compassion in acute mental health care in the United Kingdom. Compassion is commonly defined as being sensitive to the suffering of others and showing a commitment to relieve it, ... -
The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy
(2014)Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is rooted in an evolutionary, functional analysis of basic social motivational systems (e.g., to live in groups, form hierarchies and ranks, seek out sexual, partners help and share with ... -
The Other As Shamer Scale-2: Development and validation of a short version of a measure of external shame.
(2015)External shame arises from the perception of negative judgements about the self in the mind of others and is currently measured by Other As Shamer Scale (OAS). This scale has been used in numerous studies. This study sought ... -
The relationship between body image and weight-related shame and loss of control of eating in participants of a weight management programme
(2016)Background & Aims: Obesity is recognised as a stigmatised condition and weight-related stigma is associated with shame (1). Recent studies suggest that body image and weight-related shame is associated with self-criticism, ... -
When thought suppression backfires: its moderator effect on eating psychopathology
(2015)Recently, several studies have pointed the importance of thought suppression as a form of experiential avoidance in different psychopathological conditions. Thought suppression may be conceptualized as an attempt to decrease ... -
Working with Compassion
(Pavillion, 2013)This manual is designed for use by practitioners working in a one-to-one setting, with groups, or for the individual reader. It aims to look at how thoughts and feelings around threat lead to problems, how problems are ...
