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Author Durkin, Mark

Title Developing Your Compassion Strengths A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (199 p.)
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to the book -- Introduction -- Why a book about compassion strengths? -- Problems/challenges with compassion in healthcare settings -- Compassion education -- Who is this book for? -- How will it help you? -- Measuring compassion -- The Bolton Compassion Strengths Indicators -- Scoring the BCSI -- What your scores mean for overall compassion strengths -- What your scores mean for each compassion strength -- The META model
How META features in this book -- How to use this book -- Simple exercises -- How often should you use the book? -- Journaling (reflective practice) -- Work with others using this book -- How this book is set out -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What is compassion -- Chapter 3: Compassion in healthcare -- Chapter 4: Compassion strengths -- Chapter 5 to 12: Each of the compassion strengths -- Chapter 13: Applications of compassion strengths -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Understanding compassion -- Introduction -- What is compassion? -- Suffering -- What compassion is not -- Kindness
Empathy -- Sympathy -- Pity -- Is compassion an emotion, a virtue, a behaviour, or all three and more? -- Philosophical perspectives -- Religious perspectives -- Psychological and evolutionary perspectives -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3. Compassion in healthcare organisations -- Introduction -- The benefits of compassion to healthcare organisations -- Patients -- Staff (self-other) -- Organisations -- What hinders and enables compassion to flourish in healthcare -- Workplace factors -- Personal factors -- Interpersonal (relational) -- Educational/training
Individual and collective responsibility -- Outcomes of both students and staff -- Compassion fatigue/secondary traumatic stress -- Compassion or empathic distress fatigue? -- Burnout -- Compassion satisfaction -- Wellbeing -- Self-compassion/kindness -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Compassion strengths -- Introduction -- Can compassion be taught, or can you learn to be compassionate? -- Mindset and motivation -- What mindset do you have? -- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation -- Motivation to want to develop compassion -- The five Ws for learning about compassion that can help motivate you
Why do I want to learn about compassion strengths? -- What can I (do I want to) learn about compassion? -- How can I learn about compassion strengths? -- From whom can I learn about compassion strengths? -- Where can I learn about compassion strengths? -- Why compassion is a strength -- The compassion strengths model -- The eight compassion strengths across healthcare professions -- Psychological aspects of compassion strengths -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Self-Care -- Introduction -- What do we mean by self-care? -- A focus on self-compassion -- The opposite of self-care
Notes Description based upon print version of record
The importance of self-care and why we need it
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000867503
1000867501