Overview
Draws on a wide range of contributors across many disciplines
Appeals to a broad readership of clinicians, educators, and researchers in clinical medicine, neuroscience, behavioral health, and the social sciences
Takes an evidence-based, longitudinal approach to clinical empathy
Explores empathy in the clinical context from three perspectives: understanding what empathy is (and how it can be measured), approaches to empathy education, and the systemic perspective, focusing on issues such as equity, stigma, and law.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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What Is Empathy and How Can It Be Evaluated?
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Approaches to Empathy Education
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Empathy: A Systemic Perspective
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About this book
Perspectives among the interdisciplinary chapters include:
- Neurobiology of empathy
- Measuring empathy in healthcare
- Teaching clinicians about affect
- Teaching cultural humility: Understanding the core of others by reflecting on ours
- Empathy and implicit bias: Can empathy training improve equity?
Teaching Empathy in Healthcare: Building a New Core Competency takes an innovative and comprehensive approach towards a developed understanding of empathy in the clinical context. This evidence-based book is set to become a classic text on the topic of empathy in healthcare settings, and will appeal to a broad readership of clinicians, educators, and researchers in clinical medicine, neuroscience, behavioral health, and the social sciences, leaders in educational and professional organizations, and anyone interested in the healthcare services they utilize.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Adriana Foster, MD is a practicing psychiatrist, educator and researcher. Foster’s clinical experience includes inpatient, outpatient and emergency psychiatry settings. Foster has been actively teaching clinical medicine and psychiatric curriculum for the past 17 years. Foster led a Veterans Affairs clinical program and was a psychiatry clerkship director for a large medical school. Currently, Dr Foster is the Vice-Chair for Clinical and Research programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, in Miami, Florida. Foster’s educational research focuses on simulation in medical education and exploring the utility of virtual patients in teaching empathy in medical interview. Foster co-led a group of educators at the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) who created a free online collection of peer-reviewed mental health educational tools. Foster has long collaborated with Virtual Experiences Research Group at University of Florida’s Computer Information Science and Engineering. Foster published numerous peer-reviewed papers and educational tools, which are available for widespread use on platforms like ADMSEP’s website and AAMC’s MedEdPORTAL.
Zimri Yaseen, MD is a practicing psychiatrist, educator and researcher. His clinical experience
includes inpatient, emergency, and outpatient psychiatry. He has been actively teaching
clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy, and the integration of psychodynamic approaches with psychopharmacology for the past 6 years. He is assistant director at the Family Center for Bipolar Disorder, and an active collaborator and psychotherapy supervisor with the Brief Relational Therapy research project at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Dr. Yaseen’s clinical research experience includes that of co-investigator on foundation-sponsored studies on suicide and adult attachment. Dr. Yaseen has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on these topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Empathy in Healthcare
Book Subtitle: Building a New Core Competency
Editors: Adriana E. Foster, Zimri S. Yaseen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29876-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29875-3Published: 28 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29878-4Published: 28 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29876-0Published: 18 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 307
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Counselling and Interpersonal Skills