Mindfulness, compassion, and self-compassion among health care professionals: What's new? A systematic review

C Conversano, R Ciacchini, G Orrù… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: a systematic review

S Patel, A Pelletier-Bui, S Smith, MB Roberts… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Empathy and compassion are vital components of health care quality; however,
physicians frequently miss opportunities for empathy and compassion in patient care …

A meta-analysis of compassion-based interventions: Current state of knowledge and future directions

JN Kirby, CL Tellegen, SR Steindl - Behavior therapy, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Scientific research into compassion has burgeoned over the past 20 years and
interventions aiming to cultivate compassion towards self and others have been developed …

[HTML][HTML] What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures

C Strauss, BL Taylor, J Gu, W Kuyken, R Baer… - Clinical psychology …, 2016 - Elsevier
The importance of compassion is widely recognized and it is receiving increasing research
attention. Yet, there is lack of consensus on definition and a paucity of psychometrically …

The neuroscience of empathy and compassion in pro-social behavior

F Stevens, K Taber - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Compassion fatigue: A meta-narrative review of the healthcare literature

S Sinclair, S Raffin-Bouchal, L Venturato… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients' understandings, experiences, and preferences

S Sinclair, K Beamer, TF Hack… - Palliative …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Compassion is considered an essential element in quality patient care. One of
the conceptual challenges in healthcare literature is that compassion is often confused with …

[HTML][HTML] On the interaction of social affect and cognition: empathy, compassion and theory of mind

K Preckel, P Kanske, T Singer - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Socio-affective and socio-cognitive processes are separable; behaviorally and
neurally.•The related neural networks co-activate and interact in complex social …

Compassion interventions: The programmes, the evidence, and implications for research and practice

JN Kirby - … and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a substantive increase in compassion‐
based interventions aiming to improve psychological functioning and well‐being. Methods …

Is self-compassion relevant to the pathology and treatment of eating and body image concerns? A systematic review and meta-analysis

F Turk, G Waller - Clinical psychology review, 2020 - Elsevier
Eating disorders are severe mental health conditions, with substantial consequences for
health and quality of life. Such disorders are strongly associated with body image concerns …