Empathy and Mental Health

<p><em>Empathy and Mental Health</em> shows mental health professionals how to employ a deeper understanding of subjective objective and interpersonal modalities of empathy in their practice. </p><p>Chapters are full of case studies and examples that demonstrate empathy’s role in challenging and complex encounters and as each concept and process is introduced Dr. Clark discusses strategies for responding empathically. The book has a sound theoretical grounding that is informed by extensive material on empathy and empathic understanding from the counseling and psychotherapy literature and related fields of inquiry. </p><p>Drawing from psychodynamic existential-humanistic cognitive behavioral and other contemporary orientations this text makes empathy immediately useful and understandable to students and practitioners. </p>