Independent Education Consultant/Writing for Wellbeing Facilitator.
Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
Arts Health. 2024 Oct;16(3):303-316. doi: 10.1080/17533015.2023.2256361. Epub 2023 Sep 25.
Empathy is an important aspect of therapeutic relationships in health and social care settings. Health educators can foster empathy development in learners through creative writing activities. Drawing on the humanities, specifically poetry, this paper offers strategies for educators to support empathy development in learners, with a focus on service user poetry and associated creative writing activities. We discuss how poetry can enable alternative perspectives about care to emerge thereby challenging previously held assumptions about mental and physical states. Using poetry can enable a rehearsal of empathy by bringing experiences to the learner in a safe and facilitated environment. Through creative writing activities, we believe that students can learn to better understand and empathise with others, as well as explore their own feelings and experiences related to caregiving, to support self-care.
同理心是健康和社会保健环境中治疗关系的重要方面。健康教育者可以通过创造性写作活动来培养学习者的同理心。本文借鉴人文学科，特别是诗歌，为教育工作者提供了支持学习者同理心发展的策略，重点是服务用户诗歌和相关的创造性写作活动。我们讨论了诗歌如何能够使关于护理的替代观点出现，从而挑战以前对身心状态的假设。使用诗歌可以通过在安全和促进的环境中将经验带给学习者来进行同理心的排练。通过创造性写作活动，我们相信学生可以更好地理解和同情他人，以及探索与护理相关的自己的感受和经验，以支持自我护理。
