“…For instance, medical students showed an increase in empathy after an eight-session course about literature portraying doctors and patients (Shapiro, Morrison, & Boker, 2004), and some studies aimed at increasing mindfulness also report increases in overall empathy (Birnie, Speca, & Carlson, 2010;Krasner et al, 2009;Shapiro et al, 1998), pointing to a relationship between these two traits. However, when instruments use subscales, not all subscales of empathy are found to increase (e.g., Birnie et al, 2010;Krasner et al, 2009) and some facets, specifically emotion contagion, in which an individual experiences the Social Work Education 5 emotions of another, may place providers at risk of emotional exhaustion and burnout (Miller, Stiff, & Ellis, 1988;Omdahl & O'Donnell, 1999).…”