By now, no one is insulated from hearing about incidents of police shootings or violence against police officers. While fatal shootings are thankfully still rare events, this does not diminish the emotional impact of hearing about a violent death….Ri…

Luckily, empathy and communication are learned skills, so pharmacists can develop them through practice and experience. The St. Louis College of Pharmacy, where Dr. Grice is an associate professor, teaches these skills through its internally developed …

“Love thy neighbor” is preached from many a pulpit. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the highly religious are less motivated by compassion when helping a stranger than are atheists, agnostics and l…

What is Self-Compassion?Having compassion for yourself is pretty much the same as having compassion for someone else. To have compassion means that you notice that a person is suffering, and not turn away.It also means that you let yourself be moved by…