Kindness in career development interventions

Loving-kindness and compassion meditation: potential for psychological interventions.

Mindfulness-based meditation interventions have become increasingly popular in contemporary psychology. Other closely related meditation practices include loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion meditation (CM), exercises oriented toward enhancing unconditional, positive emotional states of kindness and compassion. This article provides a review of the background, the techniques, and th...

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Development of the judgments of kindness in children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental sequence in children's judgments of kindness in a situation of intentionality. The Kindness Judgment Interview was conducted by using three different story types in which parameters on intentions and consequences (benefits) were varied. Sixty-three subjects consisting of kindergarteners, first and third graders were individually int...

Career Development in Nursing: Identifying the Career Anchors of Nurses at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Background: Nurses are the largest providers of care services in the health care system who play an important role in the community health by providing health care. Therefore, maintaining and developing them is an integral part of human resource management in the health system. Considering that one of the tools for career development is determining job anchors, this study was conducted in 2020 ...

Career development for women in academic medicine: Multiple interventions in a department of medicine.

OBJECTIVE To determine the gender-based career obstacles for women in an academic department of medicine and to report the interventions to correct such obstacles (resulting from the evaluation) and the results of these interventions. DESIGN Intervention study, before-after trial, with assessment of faculty concerns and perceived change through structured, self-administered questionnaires. ...