BACKGROUND There is a high rate of burnout among health professionals, driving diverse attempts to promote resilience and well-being to counter this trend. The purpose of this project was to assess the dose-response relationship between the number of hours of online mind-body skills training for health professionals and relevant outcomes a year later. METHODS Among 1438 registrants for online...

Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) is taught to cultivate compassion and teach midwives how care for themselves. The need build midwives' resilience recognised by the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), who advocate that mental health coping strategies be embedded into midwifery curriculum. In this respect, CMT can used as a resilience-building method help respond self-criticism threat-based emotio...

This study explored the effects of oxytocin on Compassion Focused Imagery (CFI), that is, imagining another "mind" being deeply compassionate to oneself, and the interaction of these effects with self-criticism and feeling socially safe with others. Forty-four healthy participants (29 men and 15 women) completed self-report measures of self-criticism, attachment style, and social safeness befor...

What comes to mind when I hear the name Karen Zander: case manager pioneer, brilliant and compassionate nurse leader, articulate teacher, mentor, and friend. Karen has a unique perspective on health care today as a consumer and provider. While she manages through physical limitations, it has never diminished her passion, commitment or can-do spirit. Her contributions to the case management prac...

This meeting, as all personal contacts, should be carried out in a Rogerian approach of confidence, non-judgment and positive consideration, for the interview is a highly important professional act. It requires knowledge of interpersonal behaviour, and a good dose of sensitivity and diplomacy with respect to the process of questioning. And above all, it requires “presence” which enables one to ...

Objective An effective career in medicine requires empathy and compassion, yet the demands of a medical education increase stress and decrease students' ability to connect with patients. However, research suggests mind-body practices improve psychological well-being. This study aimed to evaluate the psychological effects on medical students of an 11-week elective course, Embodied Health or EH, ...

Aims and method The aims of the study were to develop a scale sensitive enough to measure the interpersonal processes within a therapeutic environment, and to explore whether the new scale was sensitive enough to detect differences between settings, including a community based on compassionate mind and contextual behaviourism. The Therapeutic Environment Scales (TESS) were validated with 81 par...