Compassion is the ability to be sympathetic along with the desire to remedy distress and offer help. The art and science of nursing speaks to the need of having compassion toward those nurses serve, especially when different from the nurse. This article examines the concept of service-learning as a teaching strategy and way of developing compassion in today's nursing students.

Effect of Two Therapies: Compassion-Focused and Positive-Oriented on the Body Image among Female Adolescents with a History Self-Injury

Compassion fatigue is well documented among professionals working in social service fields such as healthcare, emergency response, work, and education. In higher education, there a growing demand for faculty led student mental health support life coaching services to retention success. Students online settings tend disclose personally traumatic experiences circumstances more openly communicatio...

This study examined the potenfial contribufion of self-compassion to perceived competence and mental health in master's of social work students (N=65). It was hypothesized that the components of self-compassion (i.e., mindfulness, common humanity, self-kindness, overidentification, isolation, and selfjudgment) would impact perceived competence (sense of coherence), which in turn would mediate m...

The aim of this exploratory study was to explore the relationship between self-compassion, other-compassion, closeness, trust, and social support, and to determine whether there were gender differences between variables. First, it discusses the new construct of compassion for self and others. Second, it examines the potential relationship between compassion and interpersonal communication varia...

The aim of the study was to explore extent which length, status and importance current romantic relationship, number previous as well individual factors, such levels self-compassion, anxiety about social appearance, are predictors relationship satisfaction young adults. included 284 university students but 34 them were removed for several reasons analysis carried out with 250 participants (59.6...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant behavioral problem among adolescents all over the world. This study examined the longitudinal relationship between peer victimization and NSSI, as well as the buffering effects of self-compassion and family cohesion on this relationship. Data were collected at two time points from 525 secondary school students (226 girls; Mage = 12.97, SD = 1.02)...