Enhancing Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Compassion Cultivation Training Program

By Hooria Jazaieri, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Kelly M Mcgonigal, E. Rosenberg, Joel Finkelstein, Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas, Margaret D. M. Cullen, James R. Doty, James J. Gross, Philippe R. Goldin. 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation (2013, methodology): “Specifically, the goals of the present study were to extend our findings from a prior report that CCT enhances multiple facets of compassion (Jazaieri et al. 2012).”
Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “This type of practice appears to foster compassion (Jazaieri et al. 2012), which leads to enhanced well-being (Reddy et al. 2013).”
The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, methodology): “Training people in compassion can have a wide range of physiological and psychological beneﬁts (Desbordes et al. , 2013; Jazaieri et al. , 2013; Weng et al. , 2013), and many therapeutic beneﬁts (Hoffmann, Grossman, & Hinton, 2011), including for people with severe mental health difﬁculties (e.g.,…”
Buddhist-Derived Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation for the Treatment of Psychopathology: a Systematic Review (2015, background): “The RCT by Jazaieri et al. (2013, 2014) was limited by the absence of (i) a follow-up assessment to determine maintenance effects, (ii) an active control condition to rule-out nonspecific effects (e.g., group interaction, therapeutic alliance, etc.), and (iii) objective measures of compassion…”
Washing Dishes to Wash the Dishes: Brief Instruction in an Informal Mindfulness Practice (2015, background): “2012), and emotional regulation (Jazaieri et al. 2013), as well as reduced cognitive bias (Garland and Howard 2013) and clinical symptomology (Black et al.”
Ability to receive compassion from others buffers the depressogenic effect of self-criticism: A cross-cultural multi-study analysis (2016, background): “In a randomized controlled trial, compassion cultivation training decreased the fear of compassion fromothers (Jazaieri et al., 2013), suggesting that fear of compassion is a viable therapeutic target that is amenable to change.”
Psychological and Physiological Effects of Compassionate Mind Training: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Study (2017, background): “Compassion has become a central focus for self-help and development (Gilbert 2000, 2010), with programs such self-compassion training (Neff and Germer 2013) and compassion cultivation training (Jazaieri et al. 2013).”
The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “…awareness of suffering (cognitive/empathic awareness), (2) sympathetic concern related to being emotionally moved by suffering (affective component), (3) a wish to see the relief of that suffering (intention), and (4) a responsiveness or readiness to help relieve that suffering (motivational) [63].”
A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions. (2017, unknown): “…component), (b) sympathetic concern related to being emotionally moved by suffering (affective component), (c) a wish to see the relief of that suffering (intentional component), and (d) a responsiveness or readiness to help relieve that suffering (motivational component; Jazaieri et al., 2013).”