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ERIC Number: EJ663686
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
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Biography and Role Playing: Fostering Empathy in Abnormal Psychology.
Poorman, Paula B.
Teaching of Psychology, v29 n1 p32-36 Win 2002
Discusses a means for increasing undergraduate and graduate students' level of empathy. Assigned students to write about and role play a character that they create who suffers from a psychological disorder. Explains that after quantitative and qualitative analyses it was demonstrated that students' empathy increased. (CMK)
Descriptors: Empathy, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Psychopathology, Role Playing, Student Improvement, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Writing Assignments
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Note: Teaching of Psychology is a refereed journal.