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Promoting Workplace Mental Health for Hospital Social Workers Using Compassionate Mind Training

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Hospital social workers commonly experience empathy fatigue and burnout at work. However, empathic distress can be reversed by cultivating compassion as a skill and learning how to turn empathy into compassion. This report explores how 60 staff used Compassion Mind Training (CMT) to promote workplace mental health for hospital social workers. It recommends building a workplace culture of compassion through CMT using various ways to reinforce individual and organizational commitments. This helps create a sense of psychological safety that leads to positive ripple effects in the mental health of staff.

Source: OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine

DOI: 10.21926/obm.icm.2404064

Authors: Patricia LH Tay, Eva LK Kerk, Mandy MY Lau, Soon-Noi Goh

Institution: Changi General Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4404047416