Empathy in social work

Zaleski, Kristen

doi:10.15761/cbhc.1000113

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“…In a study, among social work students, the results suggest that empathetic modeling from professors and field supervisors enhance social work students' empathy. Social work educators should not focus on traditional teaching but they ought to concentrate on interactive and creative education that enhances the empathetic modeling and relationship between educators and students [77]. Apart from teaching social work students with mental flexibility, regulation of emotional and perspective taking, social workers should be taught empathy throughout the phenomenological psychological approach (seminars that utilize transcribed audio recordings of interactions) [78,79].…”

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The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals

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The current article is an integrative and analytical literature review on the concept and meaning of empathy in health and social care professionals. Empathy, i.e., the ability to understand the personal experience of the patient without bonding with them, constitutes an important communication skill for a health professional, one that includes three dimensions: the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. It has been proven that health professionals with high levels of empathy operate more efficiently as to the fulfillment of their role in eliciting therapeutic change. The empathetic professional comprehends the needs of the health care users, as the latter feel safe to express the thoughts and problems that concern them. Although the importance of empathy is undeniable, a significantly high percentage of health professionals seem to find it difficult to adopt a model of empathetic communication in their everyday practice. Some of the factors that negatively influence the development of empathy are the high number of patients that professionals have to manage, the lack of adequate time, the focus on therapy within the existing academic culture, but also the lack of education in empathy. Developing empathetic skills should not only be the underlying objective in the teaching process of health and social care undergraduate students, but also the subject of the lifelong and continuous education of professionals.

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“…Based on the findings from the interview with the juveniles, the practitioners have sometimes punished the trainees without fully discussing the issues that had risen. Rehabilitation practitioners should be sensitive to the offender's emotions or feelings, for which high empathy is required (Zalesky 2016). In this study, they also once labeled juveniles as naughty teenagers.…”

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“…As a result, there are many incidents where rehabilitation practitioners are rude and do not have a good relationship with the offenders/trainees. A practitioner should also have empathy towards clients undergoing rehabilitation programmes (Zalesky, 2016). Empathy is a feeling that is isomorphous to those of the other person, sympathy, empathic concern, and compassion (Vyskocilova, Prasko & Slepecky, 2011).…”

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Attitude of Rehabilitation Practitioners in Conducting Juvenile Rehabilitation Programme

Pauzi¹,

Saim²,

Sarnon@Kusenin³

et al. 2021

IJARBSS

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A positive rehabilitation attitude among rehabilitation practitioners is an important factor in dealing with juvenile offenders who are undergoing correctional rehabilitation programmes. However, previous studies have found that most juvenile case workers and practitioners are seen to be less knowledgeable about the attitude that needs to be exhibited when handling juveniles. The objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of juvenile rehabilitation programmes in terms of the practices carried out by rehabilitation practitioners. The design of this study is a mixed study through a Sequential Explanatory Design. This study was conducted at a correctional rehabilitation centre in Peninsular Malaysia. The study sample consisted of rehabilitation practitioners and juveniles. Data were collected by distributing questionnaires and conducting interview sessions. Quantitative data analysis was performed using SPSS software and qualitative data were analysed through thematic methods. The results show that the level of attitude among the practitioners is high (mean = 4.15, standard deviation = 0.39). Interviews with the practitioners showed that they practised a positive attitude when conducting juvenile rehabilitation programmes. However, juvenile informants said that the practitioners are negative towards them. Therefore, rehabilitation practitioners need to be given a training in terms of development and application of a positive rehabilitation attitude. The findings of this study have implications for policy and the practice of a positive attitude among practitioners of juvenile rehabilitation programmes in Malaysia.

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“…Empathy has been widely investigated in healthy subjects (Rieffe and Camodeca, 2016; Decety, 2011; Morelli et al , 2014; Van den Brink et al , 2012), various neuropsychiatric populations (Baez et al , 2013; Baez et al , 2015), medical students and medical practitioners in general (Gleichgerrcht and Decety, 2013; Smith et al , 2017), nursing staff working in mental health facilities (Björkman et al , 2008) and social workers (Gersdes and Segal, 2011; Zaleski et al , 2016). However, data regarding empathy skills in psychiatrists and mental health professionals, whose daily work particularly requires the development of a salient empathic character, are scant (Santamaría-García et al , 2017).…”

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Empathic abilities and their mediators in Tunisian psychiatry trainees

Saguem

Braham

Nasr

2020

JMHTEP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper was to assess empathy dimensions in Tunisian psychiatry trainees and to evaluate their relationship with relevant professional and extra-professional factors. Design/methodology/approach An online questionnaire survey was administered to the psychiatry trainees affiliated in the four faculties of medicine of Tunisia (n = 120). It comprised, in addition to sociodemographic and professional variables, the interpersonal reactivity index, a multidimensional instrument that evaluates perspective taking, empathic concern, personal distress and fantasy. Other self-report measures were used to assess emotion regulation, social support and self-efficacy. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Findings The response rate was 71%. Descriptive statistics showed that personal distress’ scores were lower than the other empathy dimensions’ scores. Perspective taking scores were negatively correlated with emotion regulation difficulties. Personal distress scores were positively correlated with emotion regulation difficulties. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that being an only child significantly contributed to perspective taking and having an extra-professional activity significantly contributed to less personal distress. Perceived stress, social support and having a master’s degree were significant predictors for empathic concern. Self-efficacy was a significant predictor of perspective taking, with emotion regulation difficulties mediating this relationship. Practical implications Interventions dedicated to improve psychiatry trainees’ empathy should focus not only on clinical practice and medical education but also on emotional support and recovery activities. Originality/value A unique feature of this study is the investigation of the potential impacts of emotion regulation difficulties and perceived self-efficacy on empathic abilities of psychiatry trainees.

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Empathy in social work

Cited by 12 publications

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The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals

The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals

Attitude of Rehabilitation Practitioners in Conducting Juvenile Rehabilitation Programme

Empathic abilities and their mediators in Tunisian psychiatry trainees

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