Fears of compassion magnify the harmful effects of threat of COVID-19 on mental health and social safeness across 21 countries

CONCLUSIONS: Fears of compassion have a universal magnifying effect on the damaging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and social safeness. Compassion focused interventions and communications could be implemented to reduce resistances to compassion and promote mental wellbeing during and following the pandemic.PMID:33880832 | DOI:10.1002/cpp.2601

Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - April 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Marcela Matos Kirsten McEwan Martin Kanovsk ý J úlia Halamová Stanley R Steindl Nuno Ferreira Mariana Linharelhos Daniel Rijo Kenichi Asano S ónia Gregório Margarita G M árquez Sara P Vilas Gonzalo Brito-Pons Paola Lucena-Santos Margareth da Silva O Source Type: research