Teaching Empathy in Healthcare: Building a New Core Competency

by Foster

Book Overview

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 curricula as knowledge about the most effective modalities to train, maintain, and deepen empathy grows. This book draws on a wide range of contributors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030298752
• ISBN13: 9783030298753
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"