Mindfulness Based Interventions in healthcare: their possible value for patients and doctors
Present day health care is faced with important challenges in terms of increasing demands and costs and a shortage of people and financial means to meet these. Patients complain about inadequate and impersonal service, doctors and nurses succumb to ever increasing pressures. In her lecture, Anne will address how mindfulness and compassion can contribute to a more humane and compassionate health care. The presentation will include evidence from both quantitative and qualitative research about the possible value of mindfulness and compassion for patients with depression, cancer and health care professionals themselves.
Date:
10 November 2020, 9:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue:
Via Zoom - please email Elizabeth.Thomas@psych.ox.ac.uk for link
Speaker:
Professor Anne Speckens (Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands)
Organising department:
Department of Psychiatry
Organiser:
Elizabeth Thomas (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
Elizabeth.Thomas@psych.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Psychiatry Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Elizabeth Thomas
