Empathy In Mental Illness
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Empathy In Mental Illness
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Author : Tom F. D. Farrow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-29
Empathy In Mental Illness written by Tom F. D. Farrow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-29 with Medical categories.
The lack of ability to emphathize is central to many psychiatric conditions. Empathy is affected by neurodevelopment, brain pathology and psychiatric illness. Empathy is both a state and a trait characteristic. Empathy is measurable by neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging techniques. This book, first published in 2007, specifically focuses on the role of empathy in mental illness. It starts with the clinical psychiatric perspective and covers empathy in the context of mental illness, adult health, developmental course, and explanatory models. Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and mental heath professionals will find this a very useful reference for their work.
Challenging Empathy
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Author : Orlando Villegas P.h. D.
language : en
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-23
Challenging Empathy written by Orlando Villegas P.h. D. and has been published by LifeRich Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-23 with Family & Relationships categories.
“Two struggling mothers, each with a son diagnosed with bipolar disorder, brought together through one psychologist. Join them all as they share their struggles and their triumphs in raising and treating David and Nick. From the mother’s first gut instincts during early childhood, to a diagnosis and treatment, to adulthood; these are the journeys of two boys through the eyes of their mothers and the clinical impressions of their psychologist. Their writings were a way to reprocess their interactions with David and Nick to get a better understanding of what they pined through without having guidelines, consistent advice, or a clear goal other than improving quality of life. They share the intensity of everyday moments and their deep, consuming emotions that have challenged their ability to empathize.”
The Empathic Healer
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Author : Michael J. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2001-03-23
The Empathic Healer written by Michael J. Bennett and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-23 with Psychology categories.
The author establishes a new foundation for the use and value of clinical empathy that is based on a distinction between treatment and healing, and a model for using psychotherapy as a component of an organized system of care: focused, attuned to the patient's presenting motive, and consistent with our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain.
The Effects Of Modeling On Empathy And Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
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Author : Colette Pycha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Effects Of Modeling On Empathy And Attitudes Toward Mental Illness written by Colette Pycha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Stigma Against Mental Illness The Influence Of Empathy Perspective Taking Exposure To And Familiarity With Mental Illness
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Author : Kevin Jason Powell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Stigma Against Mental Illness The Influence Of Empathy Perspective Taking Exposure To And Familiarity With Mental Illness written by Kevin Jason Powell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Stigma is thought to be the combination of stereotypic beliefs, prejudicial attitudes, and discriminatory actions directed towards a particular group of people. A wide range of negative consequences, ranging from restricted employment and housing opportunities (Manning & White, 1995), to lowered self esteem and social status (Ritscher, Otilingam, & Grajales, 2003) are associated with stigma. Researchers maintain that people with mental illnesses are among the most stigmatized group in the world (Hinshaw & Stier, 2008). Though growing efforts to combat stigma against mental illness continue (Sartorius & Schulze, 2005), many researchers claim that public perceptions of mental illness are in fact worsening (Abbey et al., 2011). Despite the numerous studies that have elucidated some characteristics common to a stigmatizing disposition (e.g., Siltion, Flannelly, Milstein, & Vaaler, 2011), the field still lacks clear knowledge about which factors or characteristics may be contributing to a less stigmatizing disposition toward the mentally ill. Research indicates that individuals high in interpersonal skills such as emapthy and perspective-taking have significantly improved attitudes towards other historicall marginalized and oppressed groups (Dovidio, Pagotto, & Helb, 2011). Other theorists suggest that familiarty with and exposure to mental illness is associated with improved attitudes towards the mentally ill (Steele, Maruyama, & Galynker, 2010). This study investigated whether a participants' ability to empathize and perspective-take as well as their intimacy with and exposure to mental illness had any influence on their stigma towards mental illness. Data from 299 participants were analyzed using multiple regression procedures. Results indicated that individuals who have some level of intimacy with and exposure to mental illness also tend to have fewer feelings of anxiety when around someone with a mental illness; fewer concerns that mental illness causes troubles for relationships; more positive beliefs about the prognosis of mental illnesses; and more positive beliefs about the appearance and physical self-care of the mentally ill. Empathy and perspective-taking did not uniquely account for a significant amount of variance in stigma towards mental illness among participants. Implications for the field of counseling psychology, limitations of the study, as well as future directions are discussed.
The Impact Of Dehumanization On Empathy Towards People With Mental Illness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Impact Of Dehumanization On Empathy Towards People With Mental Illness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Electronic books categories.
Recent discourse in stigma literature has put the spotlight on mental illness, drawing attention to the dehumanizing effects of biological explanations of illness acquisition. Research has demonstrated dehumanization as multidimensional, in that targets may be denied certain capacities (e.g., emotion) while still attributed others (e.g., memory). Dehumanization, in turn, has been associated with decreased helpful and increased harmful behavior, this link theoretically consequent of the absence of empathy. Research into dehumanization's capacity-specific effect on empathy is lacking, such as how denying a person the capacity to feel emotion impacts the extent to which one empathizes with their emotions, irrespective of attributed cognitive capacity. The current research will examine if empathy in fact depends on the type of dehumanization associated with particular mental illnesses. In a pre-test (n = 95), mental illness dehumanization was found to vary on two dimensions, namely, moral and executive function capacities. For the main study (n = 85), participants were assigned to one of five conditions, varying the target group label on these dimensions: Morality (high vs. low) x Executive function (high vs. low), and a mentally healthy control. Participants observed video footage of the target experiencing embarrassment. We measured participant embarrassment mimicry whilst watching the video, and explicit reports of embarrassment following the video. We predicted participants to experience stronger empathic embarrassment towards targets high in morality, as increased morality corresponded to attributed embarrassment capacity in the pre-test. A between-participants ANOVA with orthogonal contrast codes was used to test the hypothesis. There was no evidence for a difference in empathy towards mentally healthy and mental illness targets. Furthermore, no evidence was found for an effect of morality. Interestingly, marginal effects revealed targets low in executive function to elicit the highest explicit empathic response, while those high in executive function elicited the least empathy. Results from the pre-test and main study demonstrated executive function to correlate significantly with competence and responsibility for behavior, pointing to potential explanatory correlates of the effect. While state inference of target embarrassment did have a marginal positive relationship with participant explicit embarrassment, there was no evidence that state inference explained the executive function-empathy relationship. Overall, the results neither support a general nor capacity-specific- dehumanization-empathy link. The effect of executive function on increased explicit empathy corroborates emerging evidence in the literature that targets low in competence and lacking responsibility for their plight attract stronger empathic responses, regardless of their valence (i.e., warmth, group affiliation). The present findings and considerations imply we also shine a spotlight upon an unexpected source of stigma in mind attribution -- the consequences of attributing capacities to individuals, especially to those deficient in them. In specific contexts, attributing the capacity for executive function to targets may in fact allow for lesser empathy. Future research should investigate the relationship between executive function, competence, and attributions, as well as their impact on empathic responding and stigma.
Clinical Practice For People With Schizophrenia
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Author : Kam-Shing Yip
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Clinical Practice For People With Schizophrenia written by Kam-Shing Yip and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Empathy categories.
Many clinicians know that one should embrace a humanistic, empathic and holistic view on persons with schizophrenia. Nevertheless, some may think such an orientation is not effective in clinical practice. Some may not possess enough training, confidence and practice competence in acknowledging clients needs, feelings and subjective experiences behind pathological symptoms. They may feel insecure in facing clients' confused hallucinations and delusions. They may be over-involved in neuro-cognitive perspective or simply apply one type of therapy modality to clients with different needs, background and cultural contexts. Based on the writer's years of clinical experience as well as supervising professional workers in rehabilitating persons with schizophrenia, he attempts to share his humanistic and empathic practice with the readers. The layout of this book coincides with different dimensions of a holistic person. It starts with a strength perspective on a holistic person. Then it is followed by the emphases of subjective experiences, meaningfulness of life, self consciousness, humanistic coping and cultural aspects in clinical practice with persons with schizophrenia. The second chapter of this book is a narration about the therapeutic power of the strengths perspective in helping a female Chinese person with schizophrenia. The writer helped her and her parents to recognise and know how to regain the normal and humane side behind symptomatic delusion and hallucinations. In Chapter three, the writer demonstrates the importance of understanding personal subjective experience in establishing a good rapport and building up empathic communication with a man with schizophrenia. Chapter four is a full description of how persons with schizophrenia making meaningfulness of life and spirituality in their process of recovery. Chapter five describes the importance of respect of clients' self consciousness in the process of clinical treatment and rehabilitation. In Chapter six, the writer affirms the need of interpersonal relationship and intimacy crises for persons with schizophrenia. Chapter seven is a narration how persons with schizophrenia struggled hard in the process of recovery. Chapter eight is a critique of institutionalised clinical practice. The writer described how an institutionalised young man with schizophrenia was humanised to regain his trust and confidence in living a normal life. The writer critically evaluated that professional interventions, if being done in an inappropriate orientation, can be a burden rather a help for persons with schizophrenia in the process of recovery. Chapter nine is a critique of de-culturalisation in diagnosis, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of persons with schizophrenia. The writer asserts the importance of cultural articulation in clinical practice for persons with schizophrenia. Chapter ten is the concluding remarks of the humanistic and empathic articulation in this book.
Re Visioning Psychiatry
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Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-29
Re Visioning Psychiatry written by Laurence J. Kirmayer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-29 with Medical categories.
Revisioning Psychiatry brings together new perspectives on the causes and treatment of mental health problems. The contributors emphasize the importance of understanding experience and explore how the brain, the person, and the social world interact to give rise to mental health problems as well as resilience and recovery.
Acts Of Love
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Author : Nicole Lawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Acts Of Love written by Nicole Lawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Discrimination against the mentally ill categories.
Empathy And Healing
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Author : Vieda Skultans
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2008-03-01
Empathy And Healing written by Vieda Skultans and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-01 with Social Science categories.
For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.