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Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care, 1st ed. 2016
Author: Hojat Mohammadreza
Language: EnglishSubjects for Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care:
Publication date: 04-2016
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 04-2018
Support: Print on demand
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Part 1. Empathy in Human Relationships.- Descriptions and Conceptualization.- Human Connection in Health and Illness.- An Evolutionary Perspective, Sociophysiology, and Heritability.- Psychodynamics and Development.- Measurement of Empathy in the General Population.- Part II. Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care.- A Definition and Key Features of Empathy in Patient Care.- The Jefferson Scale of Empathy.- The Interpersonal Dynamics in Clinician-Patient Relationships.-Empathy as Related to Personal Qualities, Career Choice.- Empathy and Gender: Are Men and Women Complementary.- Empathy and Patient Outcomes.- Erosion and Enhancement of Empathy.- In Search of Neurological Underpinnings of Empathy.- Parting Thoughts: A Systemic Paradigm of Empathy and Future Directions.- Concluding Remarks.
Reports new research findings on correlates of empathy in health professional education and practice
Includes ground-breaking findings on patient outcomes of physician empathy and descriptions of underlying mechanisms
Discusses new conceptual and theoretical developments in social neuroscience