The Power of Compassion

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Laura Galiana
Head of Msc. Social and Health Care of Dependence, Department of Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Noemí Sansó
Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

Series: Psychology Research Progress
BISAC: PSY013000

Compassion is associated with feelings, emotions, expressions of care and comfort, derived from a place of love and relationship. However, as “The Power of Compassion” demonstrates, compassion is indeed based out of a position of power; a personal resource and strength to sustain people in complex and difficult times in their lives but also a concept which is meaningful at an organisational level and to society at large. Compassion has a growing scientific basis, notably within psychology and neuroscience but its application is increasingly evident across a range of health and social care systems.

This book brings together the wisdom of compassionate science through the exposition of work by international experts on the development of evidence in the field of compassion research and training. Divided into four sections, readers will find a comprehensive and contemporary review of current measures, opportunities for training into compassion and self-compassion and its application to different contexts (such as mental illness and end-of-life), as well as an understanding of compassion at a more global level. As a whole, it provides a comprehensive text for academics, researchers and scholars as well as students interested in this new and dynamic field of study. This new textbook, edited by Laura Galiana and Noemí Sansó, offers different facets of a complex concept and will no doubt lead to further debate and a better discourse on how compassion can be transformative. And that, is something truly powerful.
(Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction to Compassion: Construct Definition and Measurement
(Laura Galiana, PhD, and Noemí Sansó, PhD, Department of Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, and others)

Chapter 2. On the Benefits of Compassionate Action: Who Has the Most to Gain?
(Myriam Mongrain, PhD, and Ariel Shoikhedbrod, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 3. A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Self-Compassion Scale Original Version and Its Translations and Adaptations
(Laura Badenes-Ribera, PhD, María Rubio-Aparicio, PhD, Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, PhD, and Julio Sánchez-Meca, PhD, Department of Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, and others)

Chapter 4. Measuring Compassion for Patients: An Adaptation of the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale
(Noemí Sansó, PhD, Laura Galiana, PhD, Amparo Oliver, PhD, Sara Martínez-Gregorio, and Carlos Villafáfila, Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of the Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands Health Research Institute [IdISB], Palma, Spain, and others)

Chapter 5. CBCT®: A Program of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training
(Edgar Gonzalez-Hernandez, PhD, Timothy Harrison, and Samuel Fernandez-Carriba, PhD, Psychology Department, Universiad de la Ámericas Puebla [UDLAP], Cholula, Mexico, and others)

Chapter 6. Sequential Skill Development in CBCT®
(Edgar Gonzalez-Hernandez, PhD, Timothy Harrison, and Samuel Fernandez-Carriba, PhD, Psychology Department, Universiad de la Ámericas Puebla [UDLAP], Cholula, Mexico, and others)

Chapter 7. Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT): Program Description, Research, and Potential Benefit for Health Care and Palliative Care Professionals
(Gonzalo Brito-Pons, PhD, Aly Waibel, PhD, Erika Rosenberg, PhD, and Jane M. Chun, PhD, Nirakara Institute, Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 8. Contemplative Practice-Based Well-Being Training (CBWT): Towards a Contemplative Positive Psychology
(Ausiàs Cebolla, PhD, Rocío Herrero, PhD, Alba Carrillo, PhD, Jessica Navarro, PhD, Joaquim Soler, PhD, and David Alvear, PhD, Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, and others)

Chapter 9. Protocol for Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy (ABCT)
(María T. Navarro-Gil, PhD, and Javier García-Campayo, PhD, Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, and others)

Chapter 10. Radical Connection: Considerations on Program Design for Cultivation of Mindful Awareness and Compassion with Older Adults
(Joy L. Mitra, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, US)

Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, US)

Chapter 11. Self-Compassion and Mental Illness: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Evidence. Part I
(Diana-Mirela Cȃndea, PhD, Andreea Ceclan, Ștefania Cionca and Aurora Szentágotai-Tătar, PhD, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Chapter 12. Self-Compassion and Mental Illness: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Evidence. Part II
(Diana-Mirela Cȃndea, PhD, Andreea Ceclan, Ștefania Cionca and Aurora Szentágotai-Tătar, PhD, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Chapter 13. Self-Compassion Interventions in Body Image: A Review of the Literature
(Veya Seekis, Graham L. Bradley, PhD, and Amanda L. Duffy, PhD, School of Applied Psychology, Queensland, Griffith University, Australia

Chapter 14. Police Self-Compassion
(Konstantinos Papazoglou, PhD, Chuck Russo, PhD, and Olivia Johnson, PhD, Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Ontario, Canada, and others)

Chapter 15. The Paths of Compassionate Care: An Approach for End-Of-Life Professionals
(Laura Galiana, PhD, Noemí Sansó, PhD, Gabriel Vidal-Blanco, PhD, and Laura Badenes-Ribera, PhD, Department of Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, and others)

Chapter 16. Compassionate Leadership in Health and Care Settings
(Michael A. West, PhD, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, United Kingdom, and others)

Chapter 17. Organizing Organizational Compassion Subprocesses and Mechanisms: A Practical Model
(Ace V. Simpson, PhD, Ben Farr-Wharton, PhD, Miguel Pina e Cunha, PhD, and Prasuna Reddy, PhD, Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, UK, and others)

Chapter 18. Compassionate Communities and Cities at the End of Life
(Silvia Librada-Flores, New Health Foundation, Sevilla, Spain)

About the Editors

Index

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