Teaching Empathy in Healthcare Building a New Core Competency /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Foster, Adriana E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Yaseen, Zimri S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Health psychology.; Counseling.; Health Psychology.; Counselling and Interpersonal Skills.

Empathy is essential to effectively engaging patients as partners in care. Clinicians' empathy is increasingly understood as a professional competency, a mode and process of relating that can be learned and taught. Communication and empathy training are penetrating healthcare professions curric...