Results of the Implementation of a Comprehensive Socio-Psychological Program to Foster Professional Empathy Among Professionals in the Helping Professions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/14.2/440Keywords:
empathy, rescuers, police officers, doctors, psychologists, specialists of helping professionsAbstract
The article presents the results of research on the empathy of policemen, rescuers, doctors and psychologists, as the best representatives among helpers. It also describes the qualitative and quantitative changes in the levels of empathy among these specialists after the implementation of a comprehensive socio-psychological program.
The goal is the approval of a complex socio-psychological program for the formation of professional empathy among specialists in helping professions, in particular, police officers, rescuers, doctors and psychologists. To conduct the research, the following methods were used: psychodiagnostic technique “Diagnostics of the empathic abilities level” by V. Boiko, content analysis, and Wilcoxon t-criteria to determine statistically significant shifts.
The results. On the basis of the conducted research, it was established that empathy undergoes positive changes under the influence of the proposed comprehensive social-psychological program. As we can see the t-Wilcoxon results showed statistically significant shifts at the p<0.01 and p<0.001 levels. Positive changes occurred among representatives of all studied professions, however, the highest rates of change were found among psychologists and police officers.
Conclusions. Theoretical analysis shows that empathy is mostly considered as an emotional component of the personality, which often appears in a negative way for specialists of some professions. However, the empathy of rescuers, police officers, doctors and psychologists manifests itself through a behavioral component and contributes to the emergence of empathic actions. Therefore, the positive results of the implementation of a complex socio-psychological program allow us to insist on the effectiveness and feasibility of its application for other specialists in the field of helping professions.
References
Afanasieva, N. Ye. (2017). Psykholohichne konsultuvannia predstavnykiv ekstremalnykh profesii: teoriia, metodolohiia, praktyka [Psychological counseling of representatives of extreme professions: theory, methodology, practice]. National University of Civil Defense of Ukraine. http://repositsc.nuczu.edu.ua/bitstream/123456789/3232/1/Monohrafyia%20%28Afanaseva%29%20s%20foto.pdf
Aleshina, Yu. (2004). Individualnoe i semeynoe psihologicheskoe konsultirovanie [Individual and family psychological counseling]. Klass.
Aprosimov, V. A, Nakhodkin, V. V, Prokopyev, V. E. (2018). Sravnitelnyiy analiz lichnostnyih osobennostey sportsmenov vyisokogo klassa [A comparative analysis of personal characteristics of elite athlete]. Obschestvo: sotsiologiya, psihologiya, pedagogika [Society: sociology, psychology, pedagogy], 2, 77-82. https://doi.org/10.24158/spp.2018.2.15
Arpenteva, M. R. (2019). Bazovyie printsipyi-metatehnologii sportivnogo psihologicheskogo konsultirovaniya [Basic principles-metatechnologies of sports psychological counseling]. Zdorove cheloveka, teoriya i metodika fizicheskoy kulturyi i sporta [Human health, theory and methodology of physical culture and sports], 1(12), 27-57. http://journal.asu.ru/zosh/article/view/5225
Bager-Charleson, S. (2012). Personal development in counselling and psychotherapy. Learning Matters Publisher.
Cooper, M., & Dryden, W. (2016). Introduction to pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy. In M. Cooper & W. Dryden (Eds.), Handbook of pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy. Sage.
Demchenko, I., Maksymchuk, B., Bilan, V., Maksymchuk, I., & Kalynovska, I. (2021). Training Future Physical Education Teachers for Professional Activities under the Conditions of Inclusive Education. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 12(3), 191-213. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.3/227
Donati, M. A. (2002). Personal development in counselling psychology training: a critical investigation of the views and experiences of trainers and trainees. [Unpublished Doctoral thesis]. City University London.
Gledding, S. (2002). Psihologicheskoe konsultirovanie [Psychological counseling] (4th ed.). Piter.
Hong, E., & Rao, A. L. (2020). Mental Health in the Athlete: Modern Perspectives and Novel Challenges for the Sports Medicine Provider. Springer International Publishing.
Hryn, O. R. (2014). Pcykholohichne zabezpechennia ta suprovid pidhotovky kvalifikovanykh sportsmeniv [Psychological support and support of training of qualified athletes]. Olimpiiska literatura. https://reposit.uni-sport.edu.ua/bitstream/handle/787878787/2044/Tekst%20posob%20PS(ukr.yazыk).pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Klymenko, V. V. (2006). Psykholohiia sportu [Psychology of sport]. Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. https://maup.com.ua/assets/files/lib/book/p08_51.pdf
Kostromina, S. N., & Smirnova, V. V. (2009). Model psihologicheskogo soprovozhdeniya podgotovki bortsov vyisokoy kvalifikatsii [Model of psychological support for the training of highly qualified wrestlers]. Bulletin of St. Petersburg University, 12(2), Part 2, 67-77. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/model-psihologicheskogo-soprovozhdeniya-podgotovki-bortsov-vysokoy-kvalifikatsii
Loehr, J. E. (1990). Providing sport psychology consulting services to professional tennis players. The Sport Psychologist, 4(4), 400–408. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.4.4.400
Lovyagina, A. E. (2013). Teoreticheskie i prikladnyie problemyi psihologicheskogo soprovozhdeniya sportsmena [Theoretical and applied problems of psychological support of an athlete]. Bulletin of St. Petersburg State University, 16(1), 29-39. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/teoreticheskie-i-prikladnye-problemy-psihologicheskogo-soprovozhdeniya-sportsmena
Martin, J. (1999). A Personal Development Model of Sport Psychology for Athletes with Disabilities. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 11(2), 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413209908404199
Martin, S. B., Lavallee, D., Kellmann, M., Page, S. J. (2004). Attitudes toward sport psychology consulting of adult athletes from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2(2), 146–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2004.9671738
Merry, T., & Haugh, S. (2020). Learning and being in person-centred counselling (3rd ed.). PCCS Books.
Ong, N. C. H., & Harwood, C. (2018). Attitudes toward sport psychology consulting in athletes: Understanding the role of culture and personality. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 7(1), 46–59. https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000103
Palamarchuk, O., Gurevych, R., Maksymchuk, B., Gerasymova, I., Fushtey, O., Logutina, N., Kalashnik, N., Kylivnyk, A., Haba, I., Matviichuk, T., Solovyov, V., & Maksymchuk, I. (2020). Studying Innovation as the Factor in Professional Self-Development of Specialists in Physical Education and Sport. Revista Romaneasca Pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 12(4), 118-136. https://doi.org/10.18662/rrem/12.4/337
Rooney, D., Jackson, R. C. & Heron, N. (2021). Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 13, Article 46. https://bmcsportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13102-021-00271-7
Sarancha, I., Maksymchuk, B., Kharchenko, S., Linnik, Y., Dovbnia, S., Pavelkiv, V., Maksymchuk, I., Shakhina, I., Saienko, V., Bashtovenko, O., Silaiev, V., Radovenchyk, A., & Zhytomyrskyi, L. (2022). The Influence of Parents’ Mutual Support on the Socialization of Children with Special Needs in Rehabilitation Centres: Neuropsychological Aspects. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 13(4), 362-382. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/13.4/393
Voronova, V. (2013). Psihologicheskoe obespechenie podgotovki sportsmenov v futbole [Psychological support for the training of athletes in football]. Nauka v olimpiyskom sporte [Science in Olympic Sports], 4, 32-39. https://clffu.org.ua/storage/education-materials/March2019/h068y4Bz4qse8SmjDozZ.pdf
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors & LUMEN Publishing House
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant this journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as an earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Journal has an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
