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Background:

  • Empathy is crucial in helping professions.
  • A clear definition of empathy components is needed for professional development and training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define the essential components and sub-skills of empathy within the helping professions.
  • To establish a consensus-based definition through expert discussion.

Main Methods:

  • A three-round online Delphi study involving experts from various helping professions in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Literature review of healthcare education, affective neuroscience, and psychology to draft initial components.
  • Expert rating and feedback collection to refine and finalize the definition with a 70% agreement threshold.

Main Results:

  • Forty-three experts participated in round 2, with 25 in round 3.
  • Eight out of 12 initial components achieved 70% agreement in round 2.
  • Refined components, including new additions and updated versions, were finalized based on expert feedback.

Conclusions:

  • The finalized definition emphasizes sustainable empathy demonstration and core skills: self-reflection, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, non-judgment, active listening, and helpful action.
  • This definition can inform the development of empathy-focused educational programs.
  • The definition provides a basis for creating accurate measures of empathy proficiency in students.