Compassion Articles Related to Health Care
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Join in Giving Compassion A Strong Voice
by W. David Hoisington, Ph.D.
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A brief "editorial" that is a nice summary of how science is describing the application of sacred compassion elements within the health services.
Sprang, G., Clark, J. J. & Whitt-Woosley, A. (2007). Compassion fatigue, compassion satifaction, and burnout: Factors affecting a professional's quality of life. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 12, 259-280.
One of the best studies on the topic where the issues of burnout are brought into focus over the concern about "too much compassion that results in compassion fatigue" (which is a misnomer). Although focused on mental health workers the guidelines can be applied generally to the health service community.
See also the paper on burnout ->
MacCulloch, T. (2007). Comments, critque and inspiration. The gift of compassion. Issues in Mental health Nursing, 28, 825-827.
A short paper that states "key qualities like compassion, and loving kindness are important, indeed, are central to humane health care and must somehow be rekindled and fostered in our hospitals and health care systems". It is a good read, personal, heart felt, while also addressing some of the changes that need to occur.
MacCloud, R. & McPherson, K. M. (2007). Care and compassion: part of person sentered rehabilitation, inappropriate response or forgotten art. Disability and Rehabilitation, 29, 1589-1595.
One of the few articles that looks at rehabilitation and compassion. It is a good start, with the authors concluding that much more research is needed. Exactly what is the compassion dynamic and what are its effects? These are the issues that are being explored on this website.
Killian, K. (2008). Helping till it hurts? A Multimethod Study of Compassion, Fatigue, Burnout and Self Care in Clinicians Working with Trauma Survivors. Traumatology, 14(2), 32-44.
Cano, A. (2008). Introduction to the special issue on pain in couples.
The Clinical Journal of Pain
, 24 (8), 651-53.
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