Empathy

Relational outcomes Empathy. Seven studies out of 34, or 21%, specifically measured empathy in healthcare providers. Out of 7 studies measuring empathy, 5, or 71%, found mindfulness to be useful in improving healthcare providers’ empathy. Three different measures where used to assess empathy, making the comparison between these studies difficult. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE)48 was used in 4 studies. The JSPE is a self-assessment tool, which evaluates empathy specifically in physicians. Previous studies have suggested that the scale consists of three components: perspective taking, compassionate care and standing in the patient’ s shoes. The 4 studies that used the JSPE found MBSR-based interventions to be associated with…

My popular press article is called Bonobo Monkeys Feel Empathy Too published on August 14, 2014 in the animals section of Nature Would news on the natureworldnews.com website. The original per-reviewed article that corresponds with this article is called Yawn Contagion in Humans and Bonobos: Emotional Affinity Matters More than Species which was published in PeerJ on August 12, 2014. The researchers, Palagi et al (2014) were looking at the evolutionary aspects of empathy. Affective empathy…

Empath is the ability to understand and share feelings of another. Empathy is having a wide range of experiences to sense others emotions. The most important virtue is empathy because you can understand how other people are feeling and help them feel better because you know what they are going through. Empathy shows feelings, makes you a better listener and is moral. empathy has to do with emotions and feelings. You have gone through the same things as others and can understand the way they…

Empathy is a very important component in the patient encounter. I consider empathy to be a strength and a valuable skill as a healthcare professional. It allows the healthcare professional to put themselves in their patients’ shoes to try to understand the patient’s perspective. When a healthcare professional utilizes empathy, it keeps them from treating their patients like just another case or number. This depersonalizes the patient and makes them feel unimportant. The use of empathy can have…

of arguing the importance of empathy compare to sympathy in literature. The empathy is literate meaning of understanding and knowing one’s feeling and emotions. Moreover, it also bases on your own experience to understand other person’s situation. However, sympathy is more of pretending to be caring someone’s feeling, and it actually doesn’t touch one’s feeling like you really mean it. In literature pieces, thinking of understanding either character or author’s feeling is really important to…

Empathy is the building block of moral values, its significance in the professional nursing standard is so embroiled that some describe it as a hidden treasure and others as a rare art. Whichever way tou want to define it, the power to unlock the mystery is in your hand.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Every day in our lives we meet all kind of people: yellow, black, white, red, ; no need to say how unique, fragile, sentimental, humorous and emotional humans…

Journal 1 (A situation that I shared empathy with another person and how it worked out) Today, in another one of my classes, we received our marks of our midterms that we had written a couple of weeks ago. As the teacher was handing them back, I was really nervous and afraid of the mark I’d receive, because I did not feel confident with how the exam had gone. The teacher finally handed mine back and I was so relieved and happy; I had passes the exam. My friend sitting next to me then received…

Empathy the Super Power Sam Ferrigno, in his article, “Everyday Heroes: 8 Real Super Powers Every Human Has (And Sometimes Takes for Granted)” gives list of the human superpowers. The superpowers include Materialization-Imagination, Healing Touch- Compassion, Cloning-Memory, super Strength- Endurance, Telepathy- Intuition, Invulnerability- Bravery, and Empathy – Empathy. He claims every human has special super power and character traits that are unnoticed. He defines and explains…

Empathy is understanding another individual’s distress or pain from their perspective. It is mainly about a person experiencing other-oriented feeling of sympathy by placing oneself into the other’s shoes. One of the traits that make our species different from the others, is the ability to empathise. This phase can be experienced by simply watching someone having a hard time. The degree to which empathy can affect one’s personal emotional state varies among individuals. Scientists and…

Empathy is a harder thing to understand for some people than others. Empathy is commonly switched with sympathy, which they have different meanings. Paul Bloom, a psychologist and professor at Yale, is writing a book against empathy. Do you think empathy is a bad thing or a good thing? People will always have different opinions and viewpoints on this topic like most other things. I am here to tell you why I think why empathy is good but also bad to some extent. I am supposed to stand for or…