Empathy in Patient Care Antecedents, Development, Measurement, and Outcomes /

• Main Author: Hojat, Mohammadreza (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Health Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

Empathy has long been recognized as a key element of the healing professions. Yet it is not always clear how to define the concept, how to measure it, whether there are effective methods to enhance empathy , or whether empathy really helps make treatment more effective. Drawing on evolutionary resea...

Table of Contents:

• Empathy in Human Relationships
• Definitions and Conceptualization
• Human Connection in Health and Illness
• An Evolutionary Perspective, Psycho-Socio-Physiology, Neuroanatomy, and Heritability
• Psychodynamics and Development
• Measurement of Empathy in the General Population
• Empathy in Patient Care
• A Definition and Key Features of Empathy in Patient Care
• The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy
• The Interpersonal Dynamics in Clinician–Patient Relationships
• Empathy as Related to Sex, Personal Qualities, Clinical Competence, and Career Choice
• Patient Outcomes
• Enhancement of Empathy
• Parting Thoughts: A Paradigm of Empathy and Future Directions.