Tag: emotional exhaustion

Morgan D Stosic et al, “Empathy, Friend or Foe? Untangling the Relationship between Empathy and Burnout in Helping Professions”

May 19, 2024

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by

Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Burnout, Emotions, Empathy, Field of Supervision – Education, Field of Supervision – Healthcare, Intervention, Race, Trauma

This article examines the relationship between empathy and burnout by exploring empathy across various samples of helping professions which include practicing clinicians, medical students, and teaching assistants. Empathy can be viewed through a cognitive lens and an affective lens. The former includes perception and understand of another person’s emotional state. These cognitive aspects of empathy…