Katharina Manassis

Developing Empathy (eBook, ePUB)

A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Empathy is valued across cultures, and has a profound impact on psychotherapy, our children, and our world. Why then are many human relationships not empathetic? This volume describes in detail the neurobiological, psychological, and social elements involved with empathy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315530475
• Artikelnr.: 48211055

Autorenporträt

Katharina Manassis, MD, founded and led a program in anxiety disorders at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. She has published over 90 papers in professional journals regarding childhood anxiety disorders and has written six related books for parents and professionals, including Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child and Case Formulation with Children and Adolescents. She has her own private practice and is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments About the Author I:
Understanding Empathy 1. Perspectives on Empathy: Why is an Obvious Virtue
so Elusive? 2. Nature and Nurture: The Developmental Basis of Empathy 3.
Social Influences: Encouraging Empathy Versus Competition II: Nurturing
Empathy 4. Physical Aspects: Why Empathy Requires a Healthy Body as well as
a Healthy Mind 5. Mental Aspects: Emotional Distress and Not Looking Out
for Number One 6. Taming the Fight or Flight Response 7. Relationships and
Empathy: Treating the Other Person as a "Thou" 8. Beliefs and Ideals that
Motivate Attention to Others' Well-Being III: Developing Empathy: Why
Bother? 9. Implications for Therapists 10. Implications for Parents 11.
Implications for Leaders and Organizations 12. Implications for Everyone