The specific objectives of the Empathy Manual – pocket edition are the following:
- raising awareness about empathy and its benefits in the academic and medical fields;
- providing valuable knowledge about empathy and relevant information regarding the dimensions of empathy and correlations between them;
- underlying the negative consequences of the lack of empathy;
- highlighting the importance of an early acquirement of empathic skills on the quality of the doctor-patient relationship;
- providing up-to-date evidence-based information, practices, and interventions to improve communication skills with emphasis on the development of empathy.
The specific objectives mentioned above aim to present a framework of the multifaceted concept of empathy and its components. By highlighting the specific socio-culturally determined aspects of empathy, the experience of the project partners will be capitalized. This framework represents a necessary basis for understanding and awareness regarding empathy in clinical settings.
Empathy awareness is an essential phase: - to increase students’ ability to work together and to improve the teamwork and the academic flow, which have beneficial effects on the quality of academic life;
- to develop communication with positive future outcomes (providing personalized care (Moudatsou et al., 2020), enhancing the patient/ client encounter, building their trust, improving adherence and health outcomes);
-to identify and apply the most appropriate interventions for empathy development.
In this way, the specific objectives of this work package contribute to the general objectives of the project: awareness regarding empathy and the improvement of empathic skills in Medicine and allied health fields.
