Compassion: Concepts, research and applications.
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Authors | Gilbert, Paul |
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Abstract | Paul Gilbert brings together an international line-up of leading scholars and researchers in the field to provide a state-of-the-art exploration of key areas in compassion research and applications. Compassion can be seen as a core element of prosocial behaviour, and explorations of the concepts and value of compassion have been extended into different aspects of life including physical and psychological therapies, schools, leadership and business. While many animals share abilities to be distress sensitive and caring of others, it is our newly evolved socially intelligent abilities that make us capable of knowingly and deliberately helping others and purposely developing skills and wisdom to do so. This book generates many research questions whilst exploring the similarity and differences of human compassion to non-human caring and looks at how compassion changes the brain and body, affects genetic expression, manifests at a young age and is then cultivated (or not) by the social environment. Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications will be essential reading for professionals, researchers and scholars interested in compassion and its applications in psychology and psychotherapy. |
Paul Gilbert brings together an international line-up of leading scholars and researchers in the field to provide a state-of-the-art exploration of key areas in compassion research and applications. Compassion can be seen as a core element of prosocial behaviour, and explorations of the concepts and value of compassion have been extended into different aspects of life including physical and psychological therapies, schools, leadership and business. While many animals share abilities to be distress sensitive and caring of others, it is our newly evolved socially intelligent abilities that make us capable of knowingly and deliberately helping others and purposely developing skills and wisdom to do so. This book generates many research questions whilst exploring the similarity and differences of human compassion to non-human caring and looks at how compassion changes the brain and body, affects genetic expression, manifests at a young age and is then cultivated (or not) by the social environment. Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications will be essential reading for professionals, researchers and scholars interested in compassion and its applications in psychology and psychotherapy. | |
Keywords | Compassion; Psychology; Psychotherapy; Compassion-Focused Therapy |
ISBN | 9781138957190 |
ISSN | 9781138957183 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622328 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/622328 | |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | 04 May 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 15 Mar 2018, 16:00 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Contributors | University of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9337w/compassion-concepts-research-and-applications
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