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This is a valuable resource for students on history, sociology or social work degrees taking modules or courses on the history of welfare/social policy or global history.
Often neglected in Western psychology, this book looks at how compassion may have evolved, and is linked to various capacities such as sympathy, empathy, forgiveness and warmth.
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Narrates the life of a small, shy nurse whose compassion for others led her to fight for the establishment of the American Red Cross.
Compassion: Our Last Great Hope
This text is an attempt to stimulate and support therapists' efforts to take care of themselves, to understand and maintain commitment. Such reflection, it argues helps therapists to be active and receptive.
Jesus demonstrated compassion in everything He did and everyone He touched. He lived it, breathed it and is compassion itself. Rekindle the compassion within you in these lessons and compassionate examples.
Drawing on her experience as a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, Christina Feldman asserts that it is possible, but only if we turn, time and again, toward compassion, which she describes as the "innate, natural condition of our hearts.
... compassion does seem to have some essential quality that we seek, particularly when directed towards care groups such as the vulnerable elderly and those facing end of life. Compelled. to. action—some. final. thoughts. on. compassion.