The current article is an integrative and analytical literature review on the concept and
meaning of empathy in health and social care professionals. Empathy, ie, the ability to …

The empathy concept has central significance for social and personality psychology and in
many other domains, including neuroscience, clinical/abnormal psychology, and the health …

Put simply, empathy refers to understanding what another person is experiencing or trying to
express. Therapist empathy has a long history as a hypothesized key change process in …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Background Empathy as a characteristic of patient–physician communication in both
general practice and clinical care is considered to be the backbone of the patient–physician …

Empathy, sympathy and compassion are defined and conceptualised in many different ways
in the literature and the terms are used interchangeably in research reports and in everyday …

Purpose Some research shows that empathy declines during medical school. The authors
conducted an updated, systematic review of the literature on empathy-enhancing …

Purpose Empathy is a key element of patient–physician communication; it is relevant to and
positively influences patients' health. The authors systematically reviewed the literature to …

Background Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health,
but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than …

After defining empathy, discussing its measurement, and offering an example of empathy in
practice, we present the results of an updated meta-analysis of the relation between …