How Compassion Transforms Mental Healthcare
As a psychologist, I know that compassion is vital to the clients’ well-being in my care. They need to be welcomed into a nurturing and supportive environment – not only to tackle their own anxieties and worries but to help them shed the burden of the stigma and alienation they might face in society. Although […]
The Inter-Relationship of Emotion Regulation, Self-Compassion, and Mental Health in Autistic Adults
Self-compassion improves emotion regulation.
“Self-compassion changed my life”: The self-compassion experiences of autistic and non-autistic adults and its relationship with mental health and psychological wellbeing
Autistic participants reported significantly lower self-compassion than non-autistic adults.
Cultivating Self-Compassion to Improve Mental Health in Autistic Adults
Self-compassion may improve mental health in autistic adults through directly modifying emotions (as an emotion regulation strategy) or its interactions with emotion regulation processes.
The Inter-Relationship of Emotion Regulation, Self-Compassion, and Mental Health in Autistic Adults
“Self-compassion changed my life”: The self-compassion experiences of autistic and non-autistic adults and its relationship with mental health and psychological wellbeing
Cultivating Self-Compassion to Improve Mental Health in Autistic Adults
The Inter-Relationship of Emotion Regulation, Self-Compassion, and Mental Health in Autistic Adults
“Self-compassion changed my life”: The self-compassion experiences of autistic and non-autistic adults and its relationship with mental health and psychological wellbeing
Cultivating Self-Compassion to Improve Mental Health in Autistic Adults
Self-compassion and Perceived Criticism in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
People with ADHD may benefit from developing greater resilience to the high levels of criticism and negative treatment they receive
The protective effect of mindfulness and compassion meditation practices on ageing: Hypothesis, mechanistic model, and experimental implementation
Regular practice of meditation could reduce risk factors of Alzheimer
Functional neural plasticity and associated changes in positive affect after compassion training
One day of compassion training compared with memory training shows an increase in positive moods
How does mindfulness-based cognitive therapy work?
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy enhances mindfulness and self-compassion.
Compassion in the landscape of suffering
When compassion is cultivated, there is healing, responsiveness, and development of behaviors that reduce depression recurrences and build a person’s resilience.
An examination of self-compassion in relation to positive psychological functioning and personality traits
Self-compassion boosts happiness, optimism, wisdom, personal initiative, curiosity and exploration, agreeableness, extroversion, and conscientiousness
Self-compassion: An alternative conceptualization of a healthy attitude toward oneself
Self-compassion is an emotionally positive self-attitude that protects against the negative consequences of self-judgment, isolation, and rumination
Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention
Self-compassion is a productive way of approaching distressing thoughts and emotions that engenders mental and physical well-being
Healing Collective Trauma
The consequences of trauma seep across communities, regions, lands, and nations.
The Origins of Fears of Compassion: Shame and Lack of Safeness Memories, Fears of Compassion and Psychopathology
Shame and traumatic early memories often lead to fears of compassion
Early shame and safeness memories, and later depressive symptoms and safe affect: The mediating role of self-compassion
Self-compassion engagement and action mediate the relationships between negative and positive early emotional memories, and current negative and positive affect.
Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries
Compassion promotes resilience
Psychological and Physiological Effects of Compassionate Mind Training: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Study
Compassion training significantly increases experiences of compassion for self and others
Cultivating the Compassionate Self: an Exploration of the Mechanisms of Change in Compassionate Mind Training
Cultivating compassion leads to better wellbeing
The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress
Social connection reduces the liklihood of post-traumatic stress
How One Experiences and Embodies Compassionate Mind Training Influences Its Effectiveness
Self-compassion leads to feelings of contentment and safeness
Compassion and self-compassion in medicine: Self-care for the caregiver
Self-compassion is linked to reduced burn-out among medical professionals
Fear leads to suffering: Fears of compassion predict restriction of the moral boundary
Compassion predicts a greater moral circle, more so than empathy or mindfulness
Compassionate Mind Training Can Increase Moral Expansiveness: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Compassion interventions can increase people’s moral circle
Fears of compassion magnify the harmful effects of threat of COVID-19 on mental health and social safeness across 21 countries
Fears of compassion increased the mental health toll of Covid-19