Empathy : An Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Perspective

Empathy, a basic ability for understanding persons holistically, building supportive relationships, and listening attentively, includes being with suffering persons, healing, and inducing catharsis in them. Therefore, it is necessary within occupations supporting humans: education, clinical psychology, nursing, early childhood care, welfare, and medicine. Conversely, there are individual differences in empathy, and promoting its development is difficult. In this book, we use interdisciplinary approaches to empathy; for example, we discuss a new intervention, physical and cross-cultural understanding of empathy, development of empathy, and applications in general and professional education. The significance of this book is its evidence-based interdisciplinary perspective in understanding empathy.

Author: Makiko Kondo

Publisher: BoD ? Books on Demand

Publication Date: Aug 23, 2017

Number of Pages: 182 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9535134531

ISBN-13: 9789535134534