Dr Elaine Beaumont's Outputs (7)

Using Compassion Focused Therapy as an adjunct to Trauma-Focused CBT for fire service personnel suffering with symptoms of trauma (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Individuals working for the emergency services often bear witness to distressing events. This outcome study examines therapeutic interventions for Fire Service Personnel (FSP) experiencing symptoms of trauma, depression, anxiety and low l... Read More about Using Compassion Focused Therapy as an adjunct to Trauma-Focused CBT for fire service personnel suffering with symptoms of trauma.

Heightening levels of compassion towards self and others through use of compassionate mind training (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Continued absence of strategies that promote self-care puts midwives at risk of experiencing symptoms of stress, empathic distress fatigue, burnout, and compassion fatigue, which can all impact on the performance of midwives and the level... Read More about Heightening levels of compassion towards self and others through use of compassionate mind training.

Minding the gaps : using narrative account to explore people’s experiences of using a voluntary sector mental health counselling service (2016)
Journal Article

Introduction: In the UK almost 50% of illness diagnosed among working age adults is mental distress, with depression and chronic anxiety cited as the two most prevalent psychological illnesses. However, only 24% of those who experience anxiety and de... Read More about Minding the gaps : using narrative account to explore people’s experiences of using a voluntary sector mental health counselling service.

A pilot study exploring the relationship between self-compassion, self-judgement, self-kindness, compassion, professional quality of life and wellbeing among UK community nurses (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Compassion fatigue and burnout can impact on performance of nurses. This paper explores the relationship between self-compassion, self-judgement, self-kindness, compassion, professional quality of life, and wellbeing among community nurse... Read More about A pilot study exploring the relationship between self-compassion, self-judgement, self-kindness, compassion, professional quality of life and wellbeing among UK community nurses.

Building resilience by cultivating compassion (2016)
Journal Article

This article considers how compassionate mind training (an intervention that has been used within clinical populations to help individuals who report high levels of shame and self-criticism to develop compassion) may be used to help student healthcar... Read More about Building resilience by cultivating compassion.

A proposal to support student therapists to develop compassion for self and others through Compassionate Mind Training (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose: By the very nature of the role, student therapists experience incidents that can be emotionally challenging. In response to such events, they may experience compassion fatigue, stress, burnout, and self-criticism, which in turn alters their... Read More about A proposal to support student therapists to develop compassion for self and others through Compassionate Mind Training.

Does compassion focused therapy training for healthcare educators and providers increase self-compassion, and reduce self-persecution and self-criticism? (2016)
Journal Article

Introduction: There is a growing body of evidence within the healthcare community which suggests that developing feelings of compassion can have a profound impact on physical and psychological health. This is an important area of work, and initial re... Read More about Does compassion focused therapy training for healthcare educators and providers increase self-compassion, and reduce self-persecution and self-criticism?.