Compassion
When Caregivers Need Healing
Here are five ways you can bring mindfulness into your caregiving.
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Health
Can Mindfulness Help Mothers of Disabled Children?
A new study suggests a way to help the parents of children with autism and other developmental disorders.
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Calm
Nurses Driven By Desire to Help Others Might Be More Apt to Burn Out
A new study suggests that nurses motivated by altruism experience more stress.
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Anxiety
How Mindfulness Helps Caregivers
How mindfulness meditation helped one family reduce stress around the challenges of raising an autistic and bipolar child.
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Health
Mindful Doctors, Happy Patients
A new study shows that physicians with mindfulness skills communicate well with patients, and provide better quality care.
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Calm
Mindfulness and Doctor Burnout
A recent New York Times article looks at two studies capturing how mindfulness training is improving the health of doctors and their patients.
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Escape Fire Screening at the University of California, San Francisco
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare is being screened on September 17 at the Parnassus campus.
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Calm
Mind-Body Training Could Improve Medical Students’ Compassion and Stress Levels
A new study shows that training in yoga, meditation, and the neuroscience behind each could improve self-compassion and stress levels among medical students.
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Calm
Surgeon Prescribes Calming Music to Patients
A calming room designed by ambient music artist Brian Eno was created at a UK hospital after a surgeon noticed the calming effects of Eno's music on his mother-in-law.
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Anxiety
Sustaining Compassion in Health Care
It takes training. Guest blogger Robert McClure explains how health care providers can find resilience in the face of suffering.
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