Promoting predators and compassionate conservation

Promoting predators and compassionate conservation.

Promoting compassionate care through learning journeys.

Nurses' ability to provide compassionate care has come under increasing scrutiny in the light of reports criticising shortfalls in care. In response to this concern, three possible learning journeys that may encourage compassionate care are discussed. The learning journeys address issues relating to the conceptualisation of care and related learning. This article is aimed at nurses with an inte...

Promoting compassionate care with the older people: a relational imperative.

We have been invited to imagine a future where the care for older people goes beyond the current paradigm. This article challenges the fundamental assumptions that underlie current care practices and, instead, promotes systems and processes that elevate nourishing and stimulating relationships with basic dignity, as well as personal agency, in the later days of life. Healthcare professionals st...

Adams and Leary Self–compassionate Eating Attitudes Promoting Self–compassionate Attitudes toward Eating among Restrictive and Guilty Eaters

This study investigated the possibility that inducing a state of self–compassion would attenuate the tendency for restrained eaters to overeat after eating an unhealthy food preload (the disinhibition effect). College women completed measures of two components of rigid restrained eating: restrictive eating (desire and effort to avoid eating unhealthy foods) and eating guilt (tendency to feel gu...

Energetic Conditions Promoting Top-Down Control of Prey by Predators

Humans remove large amounts of biomass from natural ecosystems, and large bodied high trophic level animals are especially sensitive and vulnerable to exploitation. The effects of removing top-predators on food webs are often difficult to predict because of limited information on species interaction strengths. Here we used a three species predator-prey model to explore relationships between ene...