Cultivating Compassion in Health and Social Care - Psychological and Practical Perspectives

This foundational text draws on insights from Gilbert's body of work on compassion and brings them together with research findings by experts in healthcare to explore the nature and function of compassion in this particular context.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Celebrating and renewing the commitment to compassion in health and social care. Chapter 2. Empathy, empathic concern, compassion and kindness. Chapter 3. Compassion: Embodied and evolved. Chapter 4. The function of compassion in healthcare. Chapter 5. Barriers to compassion in healthcare. Chapter 6. Patient and healthcare workers views on compassion. Chapter 7. Active engagement for compassion. Chapter 8. Empathy and compassion: Professional practices. Chapter 9. Communication. Chapter 10. Practical compassion. Chapter 11. Growing compassion in healthcare organisations. Appendix.

About the author

Linda Fisher is a Chartered Psychologist and has a PhD in Psychology Applied to Medicine. She has trained and worked as a nurse, CBT therapist and mindfulness teacher in the NHS in the UK. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Fisher
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032547305
• ISBN: 978-1-032-54730-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Psychotherapy, Health psychology, Psychiatric Nursing, Community nursing, Psychiatric nursing / Mental health nursing