Compassion : Conceptualisations, Research and Use in Psychotherapy

By Paul Gilbert. 2005

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Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Compassion, as a prosocial motivator (Bierhoff, 2005), enhances dedication to a cause (Thompson & Bunderson, 2003) or moral principle (Shamir, 1990), commitment to the people who benefit from one's efforts (Grant, 2007), and willingness to continue in the face of negative feedback (Meglino &…”
Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, methodology): “In that context they become highly, social rank focused, especially on the power of others to control, hurt or reject them (Gilbert, 2005a; Irons & Gilbert, 2005; Sloman, Gilbert, & Hasey, 2003).”
Teaching Self-Care to Caregivers: Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on the Mental Health of Therapists in Training (2007, background): “In addition, the increases in selfcompassion are particularly relevant to the field of counseling and therapy, as compassion for self, as well as for clients, has been posited as an essential part of conducting effective therapy (Gilbert, 2006).”
Fears of compassion: development of three self-report measures. (2011, positive): “Research has begun to explore the attributes of compassion such as a motivation to care, a capacity for sympathy, an ability to tolerate unpleasant emotions, the capacity for empathic understanding, and nonjudging or condemning (Gilbert, 2005, 2009, 2010a).”
Maternal Attachment and Children’s Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Self-compassion and Parenting Stress (2014, background): “…because self-compassionate individuals are better able to access the soothing system of affect regulation to regulate the threat and drive systems (Gilbert 2005, 2014), they may feel less stressed by the daily challenges of rearing a child, managing to more effectively balance the negative…”
Does Self-Compassion Entail Reduced Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-Identification? A Response to Muris, Otgaar, and Petrocchi (2016) (2016, background): “Gilbert’s Social Mentality Theory (Gilbert 2005) posits that compassionate ways of responding to suffering tap into parasympathetic nervous system activity, and uncompassionate ways of responding tap into the sympathetic nervous system, suggesting that they should not be measured as a single factor.”
The Mediating Effects of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion on Trait Anxiety (2014, background): “Selfcompassion as a central concept is a relatively new field of study in clinical, personality, and social psychology (Gilbert 2005; Neff et al. 2007).”