Developing Your Compassion Strengths: A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners

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Mark Durkin

Developing Your Compassion Strengths

A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners

Mark Durkin

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Routledge
25 April 2023

Medical ethics & professional conduct

"This practical book suggests ways in which healthcare students and practitioners can develop their compassion strengths.

Discussing what compassion is and means, it includes a new compassion strength model and a series of exercises the reader can use for reflecting on and developing their practice. A hallmark of healthcare practice is compassion, yet there is a lack of understanding as to what compassion is and how it can be developed in practice. The book begins with the challenge of defining compassion, particularly looking at healthcare contexts and making links between self-care and caring for others. It then presents a new, evidence-based holistic model that brings together key elements of compassion for self and other, along with a scale that readers can measure themselves against. Identifying eight strengths ""self-care, connection, communication, competency, empathy, interpersonal skills, character, and engagement"" Durkin provides the theoretical background to each, accompanied with suggestions for practice and reflective activities. It ends with a selection of vignettes that readers can use to try out their strengths.

Highlighting the concept of compassion strengths, and compassion as a way of being, this is an essential read for healthcare students and practitioners, whether involved in direct patient care or management."

By: Mark Durkin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032232454
ISBN 10: 1032232455
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 25 April 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1.Introduction to the book. 2.Understanding compassion. 3.Compassion in healthcare organisations. 4.Compassion strengths. 5.Self-care. 6.Empathy. 7.Compassionate communication. 8.Compassionate character. 9.Connection. 10.Engagement. 11.Interpersonal skills. 12.Competence. 13.The practice and applications of compassion strengths

Mark Durkin is a lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Trinity University, UK.