Empathy in Healthcare and Mental Healthcare (Psychiatry) Evaluation (Empathy - An essential skill)

Empathy in Healthcare and Mental Healthcare (Psychiatry) Evaluation. Empathy is an essential and critical skill in medical practice. Empathy is a critical component of communication that has attracted increasing attention in recent years especially in the healthcare
Empathy is defined as, “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” It is the capacity to put one’s self in another’s shoes and feel what that person is going through and share their emotions and feelings. It is the recognition and validation of a patient’s fear, anxiety, pain, and worry. It is the ability to understand patients’ feelings and facilitate more accurate diagnoses and more caring treatment.
There are different types of empathy that have been defined are cognitive, emotional and compassionate empathy. a) Cognitive empathy is basically being able to put yourself into someone else’s place, and see their perspective. b) Emotional empathy is when you quite literally feel the other person’s emotions alongside them, as if you had ‘caught’ the emotions and c) Finally, compassionate empathy is what we usually understand by empathy: feeling someone’s pain, and taking action to help.
Emotional attunement operates by shaping what one imagines about another person's experience. In trying to imagine what the patient is going through, experiencing, and feeling physicians will sometimes find themselves resonating. Expressing patient empathy indeed advances humanism in healthcare - as a matter of fact - expressing empathy in healthcare is the key friend to enhancing the patient experience and patient encounter.
Further, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that empathy directly enhances therapeutic efficacy. Engaged communication has been linked to decreasing patient anxiety. Empathy makes practicing medicine more meaningful. Many physician narratives attest to this. There is also some research supporting this claim, although there are alternative hypotheses that could explain the findings
Empathy extends far beyond a patient’s medical history, signs, and symptoms. It is more than a clinical diagnosis and treatment. Empathy encompasses a connection and an understanding that includes the mind, body, and soul. Expressing empathy is highly effective and powerful, which builds patient trust, calms anxiety, and improves health outcomes. However, the barrier to empathy comes from the negative emotions that arise when there are tensions between patients' and physicians' relationship, in forensic cases and in malingering patients.
Empathy is good for two important reasons, first, empathy is good for patients. It builds trust, which increases patient satisfaction and compliance. When patients perceive that they connect on common ground with the physician, they have better recovery rates. second, empathy is good for doctors and it decreases burnout in physicians
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