Also see my research here Researchgate – Marjorie Ghisoni
Websites ( no responsibility taken for content ~ just places to read more about compassion)
The Centre for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education – Standford University USA
The Huffungton Post – Compassion Research
Self Compassion Research – Dr Kristin Neff & Colleagues
The Compassionate Mind – Association for Psychological Science
Charter for Compassion (Hearts in Healthcare) Robyn Youngson UK
Connecting with People – Suicide Prevention using Compassion
Compassionate Care – The Point of Care Foundation
Competent Compassion – Promotes best Practice in Healthcare
Papers/Blogs
Avadian B (2015) Compassion in Action – the work of Naomi Feil. The Caregiver’s vocie Website.
Babaei S Taleghani F (2019) Compassionate Care, Challenges and Barriers in Clinical Nursing : A Qualitative Study. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research. 24(3) 213-219
Barr P (2017) Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction in NeoNatal intensive Care Nurses : Relationships with Work Stress and Percieved Social Support . Traumatology. pp1-9
Booth L (2016) Compassion a Universal Language. Contempory Nurse. P 366-368
Bramley L Matita M(2014) How does it really feel to be in my shoes? Patients’ experience of compassion within nursing care and their perceptions of developing compassionate nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2790-2799
Cameron R.A , Mazer B.L, DeLuca J.M, Mohile S.G, Epstein R.M, (2013) In Search of Compassion: A New Taxonomy of Compassionate Physician Behaviours. Health Expectations 18 pp 1672- 1685
Cole-King A Gilbert P (2011) Compassionate Care: The Theory and the Reality. Journal of Holistic Healthcare Vol 8 No 3 pp 29-37
de Zulueta P C (2015) Suffering Compassion and doing Good Medical Ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics. 41(1)
Jack K (2017) The Meaning of Compassion Fatigue to Student Nurses : An Interpretive Phenomenological Study. Journal of Compassionate Healthcare 4:2. This is an open access journal so there are many more papers to read here for free!
Hoffman SG Grossman E Hinton DE ( 2012) Loving kindness and Compassion Meditation: Potential for Psychological Interventions. Clinical Psychological Review 31 (7) pp 1126-1132
Merrifield N (2016) Nurse competence and compassion must be considered in tandem. NursingTimesNet.
Nursing Times (2011) Ethical and Compassionate Nursing – PDF – Special Supplement of 10 Articles Free to Download online!
Palgi S Klien E Shamay Tsoory S G (2015) Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases compassion toward women. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10 (3) 311-17
Richardson C, Percy M & Hughes J (2015) Nursing therapeutics: teaching student nurses care compassion and empathy. Nurse Education Today. Vol 35 (5) pp1-5
Shonin E, Van Gorden W, Garcia Campayo J, Griffiths M D (2017) Can Compassion Help Cure Health Related Disorder? British Jounal Of General Practice Vol. 67 (657) 177-178.
Sinclair S, Hack T H, Raffin-Bouchal S, McClement S, Stajduhar S, Singh P Hagan N A, Sinnarajah, A, Chochinov H M ( 2018) What are healthcare providers’understandings and experiences ofcompassion? The healthcare compassion model: a grounded theory study of healthcare providers in Canada BMJ Open (8) pages 1- 13.
Soto-Rubio A Sinclair S ( 2018) In Defence of Sympathy In consideration of Empathy and in Praise of Compassion: A History of the Present. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
Tierney S Seers K Tutton E & Reeve J (2017) Enabling the flow of compassionate care A grounded theory study. BMC Health Services Research. Article number 174.
Walker M Quinn I Corder K (2016) Improving Compassionate Care Skills with Education. Nursing Times 112 (17) 21-22
Wiklund Gustin L Wagner L (2012) The Butterfly Effect of Caring – Clinical Nursing Teachers’ Understanding of Self Compassion as a Source to Compassionate Care. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 1-9
Books
Ghisoni M ( 2016) The Components of Compassion Chapter 6 in Hewison A & Sawbridge Y (Eds) Compassion in Nursing Theory Evidence and Practice London Palgrave (Google Books Sample)
Hewison A Sawbridge Y (2016) Compassion in Nursing Theory, Evidence and Practice London Palgrave
Irons C Beaumont Elaine( 2017) The Compassionate Mind Workbook. Robinson. London
Linklater A (2014) Towards a Sociology of Compassion in World Politics. Chapter 4 in The Politics of Compassion.London Routledge.
Murch M A (2016) The Bell Lap Stories for Compassionate Nursing Care Florida USA CRC Press (review article by Ghisoni M 2016)
Neff K (2011) Self Compassion. Stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind. London. Hodder & Stoughton.
Oelofsen n (2016) Finding My Professional Heart. A Brief Guide to Compassionate Care and Mindfulness for Practitioners. Lantern Publishing
Sheridan C (2016) The Mindful Nurse : Using the Power of Mindfulness and Compassion to help you in your work Riverside Press (review article by M Ghisoni 2017)
Watkins P ( 2009) 2nd Ed. Mental health Practice. A guide to compassionate care Elseiver (review article by Slay G 2009)
