Cultivating Compassion in Health and Social Care

Psychological and Practical Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvLinda Fisher

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-08-29
Mått138 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt180 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor114
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032547305

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Chapter 1. Celebrating and renewing the commitment to compassion in health and social care. Chapter 2. Empathy, empathic concern, compassion and kindness. Chapter 3. Compassion: Embodied and evolved. Chapter 4. The function of compassion in healthcare. Chapter 5. Barriers to compassion in healthcare. Chapter 6. Patient and healthcare workers views on compassion. Chapter 7. Active engagement for compassion. Chapter 8. Empathy and compassion: Professional practices. Chapter 9. Communication. Chapter 10. Practical compassion. Chapter 11. Growing compassion in healthcare organisations. Appendix.

“This book provides a comprehensive explanation of a concept whose importance to the practice of health and care is now increasingly recognised. Beyond this, it draws together valuable insights and practical guidance on how individuals, teams, and organisations in health and social care, can enhance their ability to provide compassionate care. I will certainly be recommending it to colleagues.”Dr Anne Cullen, Schwartz Round mentor for the Point of Care Foundation, UK