Empathy: The wonder quality of mental health treatment.

Fox, Valerie

doi:10.1037/h0095154

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“…Empathy also showed significant improvement from pre‐ to post‐training in the current study. Empathy is a quality considered to be pivotal to the establishment of a positive therapeutic relationship [25], with the success of Medication Alliance in increasing empathy suggesting that there is a greater opportunity to develop a more positive therapeutic alliance.…”

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“…It is uncertain as to why this may be so; however, it is possible that the external, expert trainers may provide additional status on medication adherence work, which may have differential effects on transmitting adherence work satisfaction Empathy also showed significant improvement from pre-to post-training in the current study. Empathy is a quality considered to be pivotal to the establishment of a positive therapeutic relationship [25], with the success of Medication Alliance in increasing empathy suggesting that there is a greater opportunity to develop a more positive therapeutic alliance.…”

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Training inpatient mental health staff how to enhance patient engagement with medications: Medication Alliance training and dissemination outcomes in a large US mental health hospital

Byrne

Willis²,

Deane

et al. 2010

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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Training inpatient mental health staff how to enhance patient engagement with medications: Medication Alliance training and dissemination outcomes in a large US mental health hospital

Byrne

Willis²,

Deane

et al. 2010

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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“…One of the major threats to the therapeutic alliance is a failure in empathy (Chadwick, Birchwood, & Trower, 1996) and low empathy has been associated with higher burnout rates among workers (Astroem, Nilsson, Norberg, Sandman, & Winblad, 1991), higher hos-tility and anxiety in patients (La Monica, Wolf, Madea, & Oberst, 1987), less involvement and increased belittling comments, and an increased sense of isolation and loneliness felt by the patient (Fox, 2000). However, the development of empathy may be difficult when clinicians are faced with symptoms that are outside the scope of our own experiences (Chadwick et al, 1996;Fowler, Garety, & Kuipers, 1995).…”

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Changing Staff Attitudes and Empathy for Working With People With Psychosis

McLeod

Deane

Hogbin

2002

Behav. Cogn. Psychother.

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Seventy-seven mental health professionals completed a 3-day cognitive behavioural training course for managing hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia. A questionnaire measuring attitudes and empathy towards working with people who have these symptoms was administered before and after the course. Significant increases in feelings of adequacy, legitimacy, employment related self-esteem, and expectations of work satisfaction were observed after the course and participants displayed high levels of motivation for working with this clinical population at both time points. In addition, the participants showed significant increases in perceived empathy for the experience of hallucinations and delusions. This was a predicted outcome as the course included exercises designed to enhance therapists' understanding of the subjective experience of psychotic symptoms. Empathy is recognized in the wider psychotherapy outcome literature as a therapeutically important variable that influences the formation of a therapeutic alliance but it is a relatively unexamined construct in CBT for psychosis. Further investigations in this area will potentially enhance psychological treatment delivery and subsequent outcomes for people who experience hallucinations and delusions. Furthermore, explication of such ''non-specific'' therapeutic factors may help to explain some of the transient but beneficial effects of unstructured ''control'' therapies observed in recent CBT for psychosis outcome trials. Abstract. Seventy-seven mental health professionals completed a 3-day cognitive behavioural training course for managing hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia. A questionnaire measuring attitudes and empathy towards working with people who have these symptoms was administered before and after the course. Significant increases in feelings of adequacy, legitimacy, employment related self-esteem, and expectations of work satisfaction were observed after the course and participants displayed high levels of motivation for working with this clinical population at both time points. In addition, the participants showed significant increases in perceived empathy for the experience of hallucinations and delusions. This was a predicted outcome as the course included exercises designed to enhance therapists' understanding of the subjective experience of psychotic symptoms. Empathy is recognized in the wider psychotherapy outcome literature as a therapeutically important variable that influences the formation of a therapeutic alliance but it is a relatively unexamined construct in CBT for psychosis. Further investigations in this area will potentially enhance psychological treatment delivery and subsequent outcomes for people who experience hallucinations and delusions. Furthermore, explication of such ''non-specific'' therapeutic factors may help to explain some of the transient but beneficial effects of unstructured ''control'' therapies observed in recent CBT for psychosis outcome trials.

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“…A myriad of other mental health consumers (Fox, 2000;Holst, 2000;Thomas, 2000) have contributed to the understanding of the recovery process. A common theme that emerged from these personal accounts was that symptoms come and go but, recovery goes on and there are many ways consumers cope with the stresses that impact their lives.…”

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“…The critical aspect of the recovery process from these accounts (Fox, 2000;Holst, 2000;Thomas, 2000) seemed to be the acknowledgement and commitment to taking responsibility for managing their illness and their lives. To avoid professionals adding to the trauma and pain, which consumers experienced in the process of their recovery, mental health providers have to learn what they can do to facilitate the recovery process.…”

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Exploring Helper and Consumer Partnerships that Facilitate Recovery from Severe Mental Illness

Anthony

2006

Int J Hum Caring

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The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the helping partnerships that facilitate recovery from severe mental illness (SMI). Given that recovery from these illnesses was a relatively new concept and that the little research available suggested supportive relationships assist consumers in their recovery process, the research questions were written to understand these helping relationships: (a) what are the consumers' experiences of recovery from SMI? (b) How do consumers describe the experience of their helping partnerships that facilitate recovery? (c) What are the underlying themes and contexts that account for the experience of partnerships that facilitate recovery? (d) Where in the recovery do these partnerships form? The co-researchers included 10 non-hospitalized adults with a self-reported diagnosis of schizophrenia (4), bipolar disorder (3) or major depression (3) from a midwestern state. Participants were purposefully chosen from a group of 69 volunteers who completed the Mental Health Recovery Measure (Young & Bullock, 2003), which was the quantitative phase of this study. In the second phase, two to three face-to-face interviews were conducted with nine of the ten participants. Phenomenological qualitative analysis with a psychological approach was accomplished using word for word transcripts of the interviews. The intent of this study was to learn how the consumer experiences the helping partnerships that facilitate recovery to inform, families, professionals and peers about meaningful actions and strategies that promote healing. Six key themes emerged from the data and included: networks of helping partnerships, medication adherence, teaching/learning, spirituality, creative 5. Recovery-A process including active efforts to build meaningful roles, manage symptoms of mental illness and accomplish life goals in the presence of SMI (Anthony, 1993). 6. Severe Mental Illness-Confirmed DSM-IV (1994) and DSM-IV TR (2000) psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. CHAPTER II. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

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Empathy: The wonder quality of mental health treatment.

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Training inpatient mental health staff how to enhance patient engagement with medications: Medication Alliance training and dissemination outcomes in a large US mental health hospital

Training inpatient mental health staff how to enhance patient engagement with medications: Medication Alliance training and dissemination outcomes in a large US mental health hospital

Changing Staff Attitudes and Empathy for Working With People With Psychosis

Exploring Helper and Consumer Partnerships that Facilitate Recovery from Severe Mental Illness

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