It’s always been tough being a teenager. Name it – raging hormones, multiplying neurons, learning the ways of the world. But these days, ya’ gotta’ be kiddin’ me. Media influence, peer pressure, bullying, an overwhelming world. I say teens deserve a lot more EMPATHY…
Dr. Silverstone is the creator of EMPATHY (Empowering a Multimodal Pathway Towards Healthy Youth), a pilot program that helps decrease teen anxiety, depression, and suicide.
by Bill White
In the 2012 US presidential election, “empathy” became an electoral issue. Much was made of the “empathy gap” between President Barack Obama and the Republican candidate Mitt Romney. A poll indicated that Mr Obama was thought to be more empat…
Bedside manner need work? Improving physician empathy can strengthen your patient relationships and impact both patient satisfaction and patient outcomes. Physician empathy is so important in fact, that a wealth of recent studies have tied physici…
What is the Definition for Empathy? Marshall Rosenberg: “Empathy, I would say is presence. Pure presence to what is alive in a person at this moment, bringing nothing in from the past. The more you know a person, the harder empathy is. The more …
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re tryi…
