Health care professionals (HCPs) are a population at risk for high levels of burnout and
compassion fatigue. The aim of the present systematic review was to give an overview on …

Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Research indicates that core dimensions of psychological well-being can be cultivated
through intentional mental training. Despite growing research in this area and an increasing …

Background Compassion fatigue describes a work-related stress response in healthcare
providers that is considered a 'cost of caring'and a key contributor to the loss of compassion …

Background Nurses vicariously exposed to the suffering of those in their care are at risk of
compassion fatigue. Emerging research suggests that self-compassion interventions may …

Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

As humans we are a highly social species: in order to coordinate our joint actions and
assure successful communication, we use language skills to explicitly convey information to …

Self‐compassion is increasingly explored as a protective factor in relation to
psychopathology. The Self‐Compassion Scale (SCS) and its Short Form variant (SCS‐SF) …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

Increased attention has focused on methods to increase empathy, compassion, and
prosocial behavior. Meditation practices have traditionally been used to cultivate prosocial …