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Culture of Empathy Builder: Elizabeth Segal

 
 

Building Social and Cultural Empathy
Elizabeth  Segal
 


 

Elizabeth A. Segal is a social policy analyst with a background in professional social work. She currently holds the position of Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Dr. Segal's current research is on social empathy, the application of empathic insights into creating better social welfare policies and programs. She has begun work on creating a compendium of methods to teach social empathy and an instrument to measure people's inclination towards social empathy.

Elizabeth is author of many books, including;
   * Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others
   * Assessing Empathy.
   * An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work.

 

Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barriers that keep us from walking in the shoes of others: fear, skepticism, and power structures that separate us from those outside our narrow groups.

 

 To progress in a multicultural world and ensure our common good, we need to overcome these obstacles. Our best hope can be found
 in the skill of empathy.


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Building Social and Cultural Empathy: Elizabeth Segal and Edwin Rutsch
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Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others
Elizabeth A. Segal


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In Social Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal explains how we can develop our ability to understand one another and have compassion toward different social groups. ... Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being.

Preface
1. What Is Empathy?
2. Why Do We Need Empathy?
3. If It's So Important, Why Is Empathy So Hard?
4. Are Power and Politics Barriers to Empathy?
5. What If Stress, Depression, and Other Health Factors Block Empathy?
6. Where Is Religion in Empathy?
7. Can We Have Empathy with Technology?
8. Social Empathy - Making the World a Better Place
Epilogue: Teaching Social Empathy
Notes
Index
 

Assessing Empathy

by Elizabeth SegalKaren Gerdes, Cynthia LietzM. Alex WagamanJennifer Geiger


 

In Assessing Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal and colleagues marshal years of research to present a comprehensive definition of empathy, one that links neuroscientific evidence to human service practice. The book begins with a discussion of our current understanding of empathy in neurological, biological, and behavioral terms. The authors explain why empathy is important on both the individual and societal levels. They then introduce the concepts of interpersonal empathy and social empathy, and how these processes can interrelate or operate separately. Finally, they examine the weaknesses of extant empathy assessments before introducing three new, validated measures: the Empathy Assessment Index, the Social Empathy Index, and the Interpersonal and Social Empathy Index."
 

CONTENTS

1. What Is Empathy? 
2. The Building Blocks of Empathy
3. Why Is Empathy Important?
4. Why Is Empathy So Difficult to Achieve?
5. Linking Interpersonal and Social Empathy
6. Tools for Measuring and Assessing Empathy

Appendix A. Research and Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Empathy and Social Empathy
Appendix B. Empathy Assessment Index
Appendix C. Social Empathy Index
Appendix D. Interpersonal and Social Empathy Index
Appendix E. Spanish Translation of the Empathy Assessment Index, the Social Empathy Index, and the Interpersonal and Social Empathy Index, by David Becerra and Marķa del Rosario Silva Arciniega
References
Index

 

 

 

 

Blog
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Dr. Segal's current research is on social empathy, the application of empathic insights into creating better social welfare policies and programs. She has begun work on creating a compendium of methods to teach social empathy and an instrument to measure people's inclination towards social empathy. The goal is to develop the instrument to use it as a future tool to gauge the effectiveness of the teaching methods.'

Blog on Psychology Today

  • What We Say Matters
    Words express our emotions, what we are thinking and feeling. Those emotions are read by others, and influence how others respond to us. Our words matter.

  • Empathy for Immigrants
    Have you ever wondered about your ancestors and what was it like for them to come to this country? Now use empathy to imagine that they were coming today.

  • When We Don't Apologize
    Mistakes happen. How do we get past them and repair the damage? Apologizing is an important way. And empathy plays a big part in helping us apologize.

  • What a Lack of Social Empathy Looks Like

    On the anniversary of Charlottesville, we are reminded of how destructive a lack of social empathy can be.

  • The Building Blocks of Empathy
    Human beings share the potential to experience the full scope of empathy. We can all work to develop the building blocks that lead to empathy.

  • Empathy Is More Than 'I Hear You'

    If we step into the place of another we might feel empathy, but not necessarily. Empathy is complex and takes a number of unconscious and conscious abilities to make it happen.

     

Articles on Empathy

 

Empathy Is More Than "I Hear You"
There is no one place in the brain where empathy happens.
 Aug 02, 2018
"My goal in starting this blog is to share knowledge about the complexity of empathy, to teach about the components that make up empathy, to show how we can engage in better levels of interpersonal and social empathy, and to explain why we would want to do that. With greater levels of interpersonal and social empathy, we can relate better to one another individually and in groups, and create public policies that address societal concerns. Although empathy is complex and it takes effort to fully learn how to be empathic, the reward for doing so is great, for us and our communities. I look forward to sharing more about what I have learned over the years."

 

On Social Empathy - Elizabeth Segal 12-20-10 from Social Economy Arizona