Search for dissertations about: "Compassion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the word Compassion.
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1. Encounters with patients in forensic inpatient care : Nurses lived experiences of patient encounters and compassion in forensic inpatient care
Abstract : Background: Forensic psychiatry is characterised by compulsory care and long hospital stays, where nurses care for patients with severe mental illness, who often have committed crimes. The main objective is to rehabilitate the patient to once again become a part of society by improving mental health and decreasing the risk of criminal relapse. READ MORE
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2. Between compassion and realpolitik : in search of a general model of the responses of recipient countries to large-scale refugee flows with reference to the South-East Asian refugee crisis
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3. Elder abuse through a prism of perceptions : perspectives of potential witnesses
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to deepen understanding of elder abuse (EA) by exploring and comparing perceptions held by experts, older persons, representatives of potential support organizations, and family members. Experts’ perspectives (I) were examined through risk indicators and screening questions (a) located in EA literature and (b) selected by an international Delphi panel. READ MORE
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4. Back to the Woods or Into Ourselves? : Kant, Rousseau and the Search for the Essence of Human Nature
Abstract : This thesis contributes to a field of Kant’s practical philosophy that has received renewed attention, namely his moral anthropology. While it is true that Kant, in some of his best-known writings, literally says that the fundamental ground of morality must be pure and thus entirely free from admixture with anthropological principles, he nevertheless admits that these “subjective conditions” in human nature that “either hinder or help people in fulfilling the laws of the metaphysics of morals” make up the foundation of all applied ethics. READ MORE
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5. Emotion regulation and chronic illness : The roles of acceptance, mindfulness and compassion in physical and mental health
Abstract : Introduction: Chronic illness is an increasingly predominant problem among the world population which vastly impacts on physical and mental health, quality of life and social functioning. Although chronic illnesses merit a long-term and complex response which would be ideally delivered by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, most of the current healthcare for chronic illnesses still focus on acute episodes of illness. READ MORE
