Given the agreed-upon desirability of protecting citizens against the worst, the question then became one of costs and benefits — and health care was one of those areas where even conservatives used to be willing to accept government intervention in the name of compassion, given the clear evidence that covering the uninsured would not, in fact, cost very much money.
But if we are broadly retreating from the principle of humanitarian intervention to avert mass atrocities because of compassion fatigue in a tumultuous and ungrateful world, then we're landing on the wrong side of history, and some day we will look back in shame.
The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions – Jeff Simpson, Ph.D. The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education > Videos > Meditation, Prosocial Behavior, Science of Compassion, Telluride > The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions – Jeff Simpson, Ph.D. Jeff Simpson was unable to attend.
One of the most serious mistakes that beginning therapists can make is to assume that structured interventions like Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavioral therapy are devoid of compassion or empathy for the suffering of their patients.
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of two different strategies for NVCC of compassion using LKM meditation in subjects blind to the study interventions.
The conference will explore the origins of compassion and compassionate action, how it can be measured, and how it can be fostered through interventions.
By stripping away the complexity of human interaction the MRC provided a framework bereft of compassion which bore little relationship to the richness of 'realistic evaluation' in the assessment of community development interventions.
The conservative commentator Glenn Beck insisted the issue is not one of "compassion, compassion, compassion," but of paying the $75.
