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Self-compassion in clinical practice.
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Mindful Self-Compassion is an 8-week training program, meeting 2.5 hours each week, designed to help participants cultivate self-compassion, and contains a variety of meditations and informal practices for use in daily life.Abstract:
Self-compassion is conceptualized as containing 3 core components: self-kindness versus self-judgment, common humanity versus isolation, and mindfulness versus overidentification, when relating to painful experiences. Research evidence demonstrates that self-compassion is related to psychological flourishing and reduced psychopathology. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an 8-week training program, meeting 2.5 hours each week, designed to help participants cultivate self-compassion. MSC contains a variety of meditations (e.g., loving-kindness, affectionate breathing) as well as informal practices for use in daily life (e.g., soothing touch, self-compassionate letter writing). A detailed clinical case illustrates the journey of a client through the 8 weeks of MSC training, describing the key features of each session and the client's response.read more
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The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion
TL;DR: The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) has been criticized for problems with psychometric validity as discussed by the authors, and the use of an overall selfcompassion score that includes items representing the lack of self-compassion has been called into question.
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A Meta-Analysis of Compassion-Based Interventions: Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions.
TL;DR: The current state of evidence highlights the potential benefits of compassion-based interventions on a range of outcomes, including the need for improved methodological rigor, larger scale RCTs, increased specificity on the targets of compassion, and examination of compassion across the lifespan.
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Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Empathy Among Health Care Professionals: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Enhancing focus on developing self-compassion using MBSR and other mindfulness interventions for health care workers holds promise for reducing perceived stress and increasing effectiveness of clinical care.
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Compassion interventions: The programmes, the evidence, and implications for research and practice
James N. Kirby,James N. Kirby +1 more
TL;DR: Although further research is warranted, the current state of evidence highlights the potential benefits of compassion-based interventions on a range of outcomes that clinicians can use in clinical practice with clients.
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Self-compassion, affect, and health-promoting behaviors.
TL;DR: Self-compassion may be an important quality to cultivate for promoting positive health behaviors, due in part to its association with adaptive emotions.
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Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources
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