Empathy Training: Methods, Evaluation Practices, and Validity

摘要: Background: Empathy is an individual’s capacity to understand the behavior of others, experience their feelings, and express that understanding them. Empathic ability asset professionally for individuals, such as teachers, physicians social workers, who work with people.  Being empathetic also critical our being able live others in general, ultimately leading happier lives. Subsequently it seems imperative examine if how possible enhance people’s empathic ability. Purpose: The purpose this article use narrative review method analyze studies empathy training human service science disciplines over past thirty years address questions: “How have people been trained what are findings?” was evaluated valid these evaluation Setting: Not applicable. Intervention: Research Design: Data Collection Analysis: Narrative review. Findings: Twenty-nine articles pertaining research were identified based on advanced computer search following databases: “Education Full Text,” “ProQuest Education Journals,” “Web Knowledge” “Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Seven types methods noted 29 evaluations most popular didactic related (42%). All but two (93%) reported positive findings, mainly regard learning (86%), or cognitive component empathy. These findings suggest regardless method, individuals can learn about concept Unfortunately, information effects individuals’ feeling propensity take perspective demonstrate natural environments lacking. Consequently, very little known trainability affective behavioral components Also, some moderated by gender, age, education level, time measurement. Regarding designs, used self-reporting collect trainees’ knowledge quantitative a control group pretesting impact. Construct validity both measurement problematic. A majority did not clearly define empathy, provide defined, and/or measure trained; conceptualization across consistent either.  In sum, data from reviewed neither complete nor enough clear full More apparently needed hopefully lessons learned will be considered designing future studies. Keywords: training; evaluation;