| Description |
xv, 195 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Developments in nursing and health care ; 21 |
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Developments in nursing and health care ; 21
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| Contents |
1. Empathy is crucial to helping -- 2. The problem: Professional helpers, including nurses, do not normally display much empathy -- 3. Analysis: Empathy has not been measured in clients' terms and accordingly taught -- 4. Solution, Part 1: A reliable and valid client-centred empathy scale has now been developed -- 5. Solution, Part 2: Using this scale, a course has been developed which does help nurses to show empathy -- 6. Summary and implications: Such a course may help others to learn as well -- App. 1. The empathy scale and users' guide -- App. 2. The internal reliability of items on the empathy scale (Cronbach's Alpha) -- App. 3. The internal discriminations of the empathy scale (phi coefficient) -- App. 4. Pre- and post-course interview schedules -- App. 5. Evaluation of the circumstances occurring during counselling interviews in the clinical area -- App. 6. Rationale for questions on the interview and survey method -- App. 7. Nurses' attitudes to education -- App. 8. Effective and ineffective course components -- App. 9. Barriers to empathic behaviour in nurses' clinical environments -- App. 10. Content of the self-directed study pack -- App. 11. The initial activity in the self-directed study pack |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-143) |
| Subject |
Empathy.
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Nurse and patient.
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Empathy.
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Nurse-Patient Relations.
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| LC no. |
00131252 |
| ISBN |
0754612643 |
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