Empathy

Master Empathy at Work for Mental Health: Practical Strategies to Build a Supportive and Mentally Healthy Office

A Revolutionary Guide for Understanding and Changing the Way We Connect

This volume is a compilation of recent experimental studies and theoretical models on the concept of empathy and its implication in various aspects of social life. The book describes the multifaceted construct of empathy and presents arduous concepts in a fluent and understandable way to reach readers who may not be familiar with the subject.

Authors: Hojat, Mohammadreza
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

In this book, authors use interdisciplinary approaches to empathy: 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.