Empathic Communities: Educating for Justice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498258166)

Empathy is generally considered a useful skill for professional students in the helping professions, such as medicine, nursing, teaching, and clergy. This book examines the pedagogical and curricular implications of educating for empathy. Empathy is described as consisting of both cognitive and affective elements. Students may demonstrate empathic abilities on a continuum from an empathic deficit to empathic overload. Mentoring, reflection, journaling, and an understanding of spiritual formation can be helpful to professional students in learning how to engage empathy. For both the professional and the client, empathy can enhance the encounter and the professional relationship. Building on the inherent potential for relationality, professionals engaging empathy bring respectful humility into their encounters that can facilitate intercultural understanding in a diversifying and complex world.

Author: Johanna M. Selles
ISBN-10: 1498258166
ISBN-13: 9781498258166
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d