Background: Person-centred practice, which includes compassion, needs to be well facilitated in order to flourish in healthcare settings. Facilitation is known to be complex and requires expert knowing and skills. The importance of adequate facilitator support is recognised. The literature however is unclear about the nature of this support and how it can be offered to facilitators while engagi...

OBJECTIVE Compassionate care continues to be a focus for national and international attention, but the existing evidence base lacks the experimental methodology necessary to guide the selection of effective interventions for practice. This study aimed to evaluate the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention in improving compassionate care. SETTING Ward nursin...

A Meeting of East 2 Introduction In 1979 a conference entitled " Comparative Approaches to Cognition: Western and Buddhist " was set to be held at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. The meeting was supposed to be a groundbreaking meeting of Buddhists, psychologists, neurologists, and other interested that would launch a mutually beneficial relationship between Buddhism and the west. The confe...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To understand how patients experience compassion within nursing care and explore their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses. BACKGROUND Compassion is a fundamental part of nursing care. Individually, nurses have a duty of care to show compassion; an absence can lead to patients feeling devalued and lacking in emotional support. Despite recent media attention, pri...

BACKGROUND The consideration of specific trauma-associated emotions poses a challenge for the differential treatment planning in trauma therapy. Soldiers experiencing deployment-related posttraumatic stress disorder often struggle with emotions of guilt and shame as a central component of their PTSD. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which soldiers' PTSD symptom...