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Utilizing Improvisation to Teach Empathy Skills in Counselor Education
Author(s) -
Bayne Hannah B.,
Jangha Awa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/ceas.12052
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , improvisation , aside , set (abstract data type) , counselor education , pedagogy , applied psychology , psychotherapist , medical education , social psychology , cognitive psychology , higher education , medicine , art , literature , political science , law , visual arts , computer science , programming language
Empathy development is foundational to counselor training, yet there is scant research on techniques for teaching empathy aside from traditional microskills models. The authors discuss empathy as a skill set, highlight how improvisation (improv) can be used to enhance training, and describe how to incorporate improv activities within the classroom.