Student-produced empathic responses: the second step in teaching communication skills to allied health supervisors

Two earlier reports have demonstrated the success of a specific curricular plan in teaching potential allied health supervisors to recognize empathic responses in stimulus situations. This study demonstrated that the same instructional content and methodology were also effective in teaching student-supervisors to produce empathic responses in simulated supervisory situations. Experimental and control groups were used, and the experimental group was superior in the test situation at a significance level of p less than .015. Pertinent literature from counselor education is reviewed and its relevance to the education of hospital and health care supervisors is discussed.