Cultivating Compassion in Health and Social Care
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Cultivating Compassion in Health and Social Care

Psychological and Practical Perspectives

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eBook - ePub

Cultivating Compassion in Health and Social Care

Psychological and Practical Perspectives

About this book

Compassion in healthcare is simultaneously a professional practice and a personal response to the suffering of strangers that is shaped by life experience and a shared evolutionary past. This foundational text draws on insights from Gilbert's body of work on compassion and brings them together with research findings by experts in healthcare to explore the nature and function of compassion in this particular context.

The particularities of empathy and compassion and the challenges of both practices are considered. The process of emotional co-regulation that has a practical basis rooted in communication is framed as key to the experience of compassion. Mindfulness is presented as a way of establishing an attuned self-awareness as the foundation for self-care as well as for states of healthy connection with patients and colleagues. The cognitive therapy model is introduced as one way of organising the salient features of compassionate practice. Suggestions are made for cultivating compassion in health and social care at individual, team and organisational level.

This book is essential reading for all healthcare workers and students of medicine, nursing, the allied healthcare professions, psychology and healthcare management.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040412695
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Applied Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Celebrating and renewing the commitment to compassion in health and social care
  8. 2 Empathy, empathic concern, compassion and kindness
  9. 3 Compassion: Embodied and evolved
  10. 4 The function of compassion in healthcare
  11. 5 Barriers to compassion in healthcare
  12. 6 Patient and healthcare workers’ views on compassion
  13. 7 Active engagement for compassion
  14. 8 Empathic concern and compassion: Professional practices
  15. 9 Communication
  16. 10 Practical compassion
  17. 11 Growing compassion in healthcare organisations
  18. Appendix
  19. Index