Compassion : concepts, research and applications /
Paul Gilbert brings together an international line-up of leading scholars and researchers in the field to provide a state-of-the-art exploration of key areas in compassion research and applications. Compassion can be seen as a core element of prosocial behaviour, and explorations of the concepts and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2017
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| Edition: | 1 Edition |
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| Summary: | Paul Gilbert brings together an international line-up of leading scholars and researchers in the field to provide a state-of-the-art exploration of key areas in compassion research and applications. Compassion can be seen as a core element of prosocial behaviour, and explorations of the concepts and value of compassion have been extended into different aspects of life including physical and psychological therapies, schools, leadership and business. While many animals share abilities to be distress sensitive and caring of others, it is our newly evolved, socially intelligent abilities that make us capable of knowingly and deliberately helping others and purposely developing skills and wisdom to do so. This book generates many research questions whilst exploring the similarities and differences of human compassion to non-human caring and looks at how compassion changes the brain and body, affects genetic expression, manifests at a young age and is then cultivated (or not) by the social environment. Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications will be essential reading for professionals, researchers and scholars interested in compassion and its applications in psychology and psychotherapy. Book jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (pages cm.) : 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1315564297 1317189469 1317189477 1317189485 9781315564296 9781317189466 9781317189473 9781317189480 |
| Access: | EBSCOhost Concurrent Access |