Date of Award
Spring 5-22-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
MA - Master of Arts
Department
Mindfulness Studies
First Advisor
Melissa Jean
Second Advisor
Nancy Waring
Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought tremendous and abrupt challenges to various aspects of our daily lives, from school and work to interpersonal relationships. Given the high rates of stress and anxiety brought on by COVID-19, solutions to help ease uncertainty are warranted. This study is intended to provide support, from research on neuroscience, collected from scholarly peer reviewed journals, for the contention that compassion practice may be a potent strategy to reduce caregiver burnout and buffer the adverse mental health impacts of COVID-19 related threats. This study examines mindfulness and compassion, as well as attending to their interrelatedness, so that practitioners gain a deeper understanding into the application of these practices in order to cultivate greater resilience during COVID-19 and beyond.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Patel, Jess Okanya, "Fostering Resiliency During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mindfulness and Compassion Training" (2021). Mindfulness Studies Theses. 52.
https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/mindfulness_theses/52
