Description: 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
Brief description:
Elizabeth A. Segal is professor at Arizona State Univeristy's school of social work. She is author of Social Welfare Policies and Social Programs: A Values Perspective (Brooks/Cole Cengage, 2016); a co-author of An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work: Becoming a Change Agent Brooks/Cole
Cengage, 2016); and Social Welfare Policies and Social Programs: A Values Perspective (Brooks/Cole Cengage, 2013).
Review Quotes: I found this book to be deeply engaging and an urgent contemporary revisiting of a concept that is fundamental to interpersonal communication and therapeutic relationships. The authors brilliantly integrate transdisciplinary knowledge and perspectives from physiology, psychology, and the neurosciences to enhance the reader's understanding of "empathy."--Paula Allen-Meares, chancellor emerita, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago