Browsing by Subject "myötätunto"
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(2024)Tavoitteet: Post-traumaattista stressihäiriötä, eli PTSD:tä, sairastavilla esiintyy runsaasti heikkoa hoitovastetta. Häiriön yksilöllistä oireilua saattavat hallita traumaan liittyvät tunnetilat, jolloin niiden uniikkeihin toimintamekanismeihin tulisi kohdentaa tarkoin valittua hoitoa. Yksi näistä PTSD:ssä usein toistuvista, hallitsevista tunnetiloista on häpeä. Itsemyötätunnon harjoittamista tulisi tutkia häpeäpainotteisen PTSD:n hoidossa, sillä niiden on todettu lieventävän häpeälle tyypillisiä itsekriittisiä ja itseä tuomitsevia toimintamalleja. Tutkielman pääasiallisena tavoitteena on selvittää, auttavatko itsemyötätuntoiset menetelmät häpeäpainotteisen PTSD:n oirekuvan lievittymisessä. Samalla kartoitetaan PTSD-oireiden, häpeän ja itsemyötätunnon välisiä kahdenkeskisiä yhteyksiä sekä selvitetään, vaikuttaako itsemyötätuntoisuus eri tavoin geneeriseen kuin traumaan liittyvään häpeään. Menetelmät: Tutkimuskirjallisuutta haettiin Google Scholar, Ovid Medline, PubMed sekä Helka -tietokannoista. Käytettyjä hakusanoja ja niiden yhdistelmiä olivat “ptsd”, “self-compassion”, “shame” ja “trauma”. Tulokset ja johtopäätökset: Itsemyötätuntoiset menetelmät vaikuttivat lupaavilta häpeäpainotteisen PTSD:n hoidossa. Traumaan liittyvä häpeä sääteli itsemyötätunnon ja PTSD-oireiden välistä yhteyttä. PTSD-oireet, häpeä ja itsemyötätunto ilmensivät mielekkäitä kahdenkeskisiä yhteyksiä. Lisäksi itsemyötätuntoisuus osoitti samankaltaista yhteyttä niin geneeriseen kuin traumaan liittyvään häpeään. Tulokset itsemyötätunnon traumaan liittyvää häpeää sekä siitä kärsivien PTSD-oireita lievittävistä vaikutuksista saattavat olla yleistettävissä ainoastaan interpersonaalista väkivaltaa kokeneisiin yksilöihin. Tulevaisuudessa olisi hyvä tutkia lisää itsemyötätunnon ja häpeäpainotteisen PTSD:n yhteyttä myös toisenlaista traumaa kokeneiden populaatiossa sekä keskittää huomioita erilaisiin PTSD:tä ylläpitäviin ja sen oirekuvaa hallitseviin tunnetiloihin.
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(2022)Being able to feel empathy, understand, and help others are all important in everyday social situations as well as for the survival of the human species. For this reason, it is important to research the processes behind prosocial behaviour. Compassion is one of the processes connected to prosocial behaviour, and it has been linked to feelings of warmth and concern as well as approach behaviour. This literary study investigates the association between compassion and prosocial behaviour. The aim is also to discuss possible mediating factors between compassion and prosocial behaviour. The hypothesis is that compassion is linked to increased prosocial behaviour. The method of data collection for the study was a literacy search on Scopus database. Five individual studies, consisting of seven relevant experimental set ups, were included in this literary study. The associations between compassion and prosocial behaviour were investigated using self-reports, behavioural measurements, and functional brain imaging. Three of the studies investigated the effects of compassion training to prosociality, and one of them also utilised functional brain imaging. One of the studies investigated changes in neural responses after a compassion intervention. Even though the study didn’t directly measure prosocial behaviour, the results are still important for investigating the neural correlates of compassion. Two of the studies investigated the links between self-reported compassion and prosocial behaviour. The results in this study indicate that compassion has an increasing effect on prosocial behaviour. A correlation between increased compassion and increased prosocial behaviour was found in all the studies, and activation of the brain’s reward processes seems to explain the link. However, the results should be interpreted with caution, because compassion is hard to measure reliably, and the comparison between the studies is difficult due to the differences between the experimental set ups. In any case, the results indicate that compassion has an important role enhancing prosocial behaviour. Compassion is also a trainable skill, which opens opportunities for more structured interventions for increasing prosocial behaviour in the future.
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(2022)Objective. Compassion is defined as a capability to experience one’s personal or another’s suffering and also feel motivated to relieve encountered suffering. Eating disorders are psychiatric disorders consisting of problems with food and eating-related behaviors which cause clinically significant distress. Eating disorder prevalence has seen a major surge in recent years. In addition, the disorders are quite often long-lasting, greatly reducing quality of life, and they are resistant to many of the commonplace treatment methods. The situation at hand actively motivates to seek and develop new and more effective treatments for eating disorders. Shame and self-criticism generally co-occur with eating disorders and are linked with greater psychopathology, while compassion works to some extent as an antagonist to them and is known to decrease psychopathology as well. Compassion can be learned and compassion-focused therapy (CFT, suom. myötätuntokeskeinen terapia) focuses on just that with its methods. The objective of this literature review is to examine the potential benefits and opportunities of compassion-focused therapy for the treatment of eating disorders. In addition, the focus is on the increased experience of shame that may be associated with eating disorders and the benefits of treating it. Methods. The literature for this review was gathered from PubMed-, Scopus, and Google Scholar - databases combining the search terms “eating disorders” and “compassion-focused therapy”. Results and conclusions. According to several studies, compassion-focused therapy has been found to be beneficial in treating eating disorders. The shame and self-criticism associated with eating disorders are alleviated with compassionate training, which reduces both specific eating disorder symptomatology and, more broadly, psychopathology, which promotes treatment response to conventional therapies. Promisingly, Compassion-focused therapy has been found to work particularly well alongside standard treatment, thereby reaching for traits of psychopathology, such as symptom-sustaining feelings of shame which are not directly reached by other methods.
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