Focusing: A new challenger for improving the empathy skills of medical students
| Autor: | Nasello, Julian Adriano, Nasello, Julian, Triffaux, Jean-Marc |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université de Liège |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Medical education Complementary and Manual Therapy Students Medical media_common.quotation_subject education [SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology Empathy Young Adult Embodiment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Internship Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Fantasy Curriculum Empathic concern media_common Advanced and Specialized Nursing Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Prevention Siblings 4. Education Self Gender Complementary and alternative medicine Embodied cognition Trait Female business Social psychology [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Education Medical Undergraduate |
| Zdroj: | Complementary Therapies in Medicine Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Elsevier, 2020, 53, pp.102536. ⟨10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102536⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0965-2299 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ctim.2020.102536 |
| Popis: | Objectives Studies of empathy among medical students reported an alarming significant decline during medical education. Some authors identified the third year of education as the most problematic one: empathy decreased significantly when the curriculum was shifting to patient-care activities. Scientists have tried to address the means and methods for improving empathy skills (e.g., by improving communication abilities), but investigations on this topic are missing. Based on the Damasio’s hypothesis and scientific studies, we assume that Focusing (i.e., an embodied practice where one attends to a bodily felt sense and uses it to understand the self and situations) would be significantly and positively linked to empathy. Method After their clinical internships, we selected third-year medical students (N = 121) and asked them to complete three questionnaires assessing empathy, Focusing, and social desirability. Results By controlling social desirability, findings confirmed that Focusing (especially the “having access to the felt body” component) was significantly and positively linked with empathy (i.e., Fantasy & Perspective-Taking), and positively predicted Fantasy, Perspective-Taking, and Empathic Concern. Conclusions These preliminary results suggest that the felt body plays a role in increasing empathy (mainly on cognitive empathy). Few scientific studies have described constructs that significantly promote cognitive empathy and empathic concern (a deeply anchored trait of empathy), which suggests new avenues of investigation. |
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