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I invite you to look at the following resources and find information related to compassion cultivation, published research on the science of compassion and links to great organizations dedicated to help people to improve mental and physical health.
Compassion Cultivation Training - CCT©
CCT Research - Science of Compassion
Published peer-reviewed studies on CCT™ are listed here:
Brito-Pons, G., Campos, D., & Cebolla, A. (2017) Implicit or Explicit Compassion? Effects of Compassion Cultivation Training and Comparison with Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. Mindfulness. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12671-018-0898-z
Jazaieri, H. & Goldin, P. (2017) Investigating Moderators of Compassion Meditation Training in a Community Sample. Mindfulness. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12671-017-0857-0
Jazaieri, H., McGonigal, K., Lee, I., Jinpa, T., Doty, J., Gross, J. & Goldin, P. (2017) Altering the Trajectory of Affect and Affect Regulation: the Impact of Compassion Training. Mindfulness. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12671-017-0773-3
Scarlet, J., Altmeyer, N., Knier, S., & Harpin, R. E. (2017). The effects of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) on health-care workers. Clinical Psychologist, 21(2), 116-124. doi:10.1111/cp.12130
Jazaieri, H., Lee, I., McGonigal, K., Jinpa, T., Doty, J., Gross, J., & Goldin, P. (2015). A wandering mind is a less caring mind: Daily experience sampling during compassion meditation training. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(1), 37-50. doi:10.1080/17439760.2015.1025418
Chapin, H. L., Darnall, B. D., Seppala, E. M., Doty, J. R., Hah, J. M., & Mackey, S. C. (2014). Pilot study of a compassion meditation intervention in chronic pain. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 1(1). doi:10.1186/s40639-014-0004-x
Ruchelli, G., Chapin, H., Darnall, B., Seppala, E., Doty, J., & Mackey, S. (2014). Compassion meditation training for people living with chronic pain and their significant others: a pilot study and mixed-methods analysis. The Journal of Pain, 15(4). doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2014.01.479
Jazaieri, H., McGonigal, K., Jinpa, T., Doty, J. R., Gross, J. J., & Goldin, P. R. (2013). A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation. Motivation and Emotion, 38(1), 23-35. doi:10.1007/s11031-013-9368-z
Jazaieri, H., Jinpa, T., McGonigal, K., Rosenberg, E. L., Finkelstein, J., Simon-Thomas, E., Cullen, M., Doty, J., Gross, J., Goldin, P. R. (2012). Enhancing Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Compassion Cultivation Training Program. Journal of Happiness Studies, 14(4), 1113-1126. doi:10.1007/s10902-012-9373-z
Featured videos, conferences and speaker series from the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education - CCARE, Stanford Medicine
Published Research supported by CCARE scientists
Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley
Organizations
You will find here a link to the ‘Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’. December Newsletter, dedicated to the importance of compassion in providing high-quality end-of-life care.
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Lineth’s Articles
Radio
You are invited to listen this conversation in Spanish recorded in the radio program ‘Hoy Toca Ser Feliz’, aired in Costa Rica on November, 2018. Title: ‘The Art of Compassion’. Listen by clicking on the following Sound Cloud Link
Other references and research articles
1. Jazaieri, H., McGonigal, K., Jinpa, T., Doty, J. R., Gross, J. J., & Goldin, P. R. (2013). A randomized controlled trial of compassion cultivation training: Effects on mindfulness, affect, and emotion regulation. Motivation and Emotion.
2. Jazaieri, H., Jinpa, G. T., McGonigal, K., Rosenberg, E. L., Finkelstein, J., Simon-Thomas, E., et al. (2012). Enhancing compassion: A randomized controlled trial of a compassion cultivation training program. Journal of Happiness Studies.
3. Klimecki, O. M., Leiberg, S., Lamm, C., & Singer, T. (2012). Functional neural plasticity and associated changes in positive affect after compassion training. Cerebral Cortex.
4. Goetz, J. L., Keltner, D., & Simon-Thomas, E. (2010). Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review. Psychological Bulletin, 136(3), 351–374.
5. Halifax, J. (2012). A heuristic model of enactive compassion. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 6(2), 228–235.
6. Neff, K. D., & Germer, C. K. (2012). A pilot study and randomized controlled trial of the mindful self‐compassion program. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
7. Hofmann, S. G., Grossman, P., & Hinton, D. E. (2011). Loving-kindness and compassion meditation: Potential for psychological interventions. Clinical Psychology Review, 31(7), 1126–1132.
8. Gilbert, P., & Procter, S. (2006). Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self-criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 13(6), 353–379.
9. Bishop, S. R., Lau, M., Shapiro, S., Carlson, L., Anderson, N. D., Carmody, J., et al. (2006). Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 230–241.
10. Oveis, C., Horberg, E. J., & Keltner, D. (2010). Compassion, pride, and social intuitions of self-other similarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(4), 618–630. doi:10.1037/a0017628
11. Valdesolo, P., & DeSteno, D. (2011). Synchrony and the social tuning of compassion. Emotion, 11(2), 262–266.
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