Empathy Book Reviews Samples For Students

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Petersen, J. (2007). Why don't we listen better?: Communicating & connecting in relationships. Tigard, OR: Petersen Publications.
The text by Petersen was published in 2007, describing relationships and how one can relate in those relationships. Petersen strives to demonstrated effective communication by saying that one should not allow their emotions to rule what is being communicated. He also mentions incidents that made him come up with the theory ‘the flat –brain theory of emotions’. The literature provides a line graphic drawing of an individual, illustrating and differentiating emotional reaction in people. Petersen clarifies that the origin of reactions originates from ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

Irvin Yalom is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, one of the founders of the "third wave" in psychotherapy and founders of the school of existential therapy. Psychotherapy Crisis in America, taking place, according to Yalom, because of economic dependence on the US health care system by the interests of private insurers and, as a result, the requirements for the psychotherapy that it was inexpensive, and therefore, a short, superficial, flimsy. Irvin Yalom, a psychotherapist with a great experience, has written many books, scientific and otherwise. However, "The Gift of Therapy" is the text is so structured, interesting ...

The famous and world widely recognized short story by well-known Chinese writer Lu Xun, the New Year Sacrifice conveys the distressing but touching story of a young woman with a heart-breaking life ultimately compels her to the outer reaches of the societal ethical standards. The story is neither a radical means nor an artistic inclined piece, but a way for encouraging social modification (eNotes.com). It has a special consideration to the dilemma of women in his time by incorporating in the story significant concepts regarding women’s liberty. The story transpired in the period earlier the Revolution of 1911, a poor Chinese woman is sold ...

Book Review: Creating Innovators:

Book Review: Creating Innovators
Tony Wagner’s book, “Creating Innovators” is a fascinating book that outlines how parents and schools can educate children to be “innovators”. An innovator is described by Wagner through interviews with several professionals in many fields of business, government and education. The common characteristics are: curious; collaborative; integrative thinker; action oriented (Wagner 16). How these qualities are nurtured in our children happens both in the home and at school. All of the young adults that Mr. Wagner interviewed for his book possessed that traits and skills.
The curiosity begins at home and needs to ...

Book review – Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

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“Men are from mars, women are from Venus” is a user’s guide for married couples to understand each other better, and transform their differences to complement each other to enjoy their long journey together as man and wife. John Gray, renowned relationship counselor and the author of the book, views men and women as having inherently dissimilar values and views about life. In marriage people often expect the opposite sex to be more like themselves. Each desires the other to want the same thing and feel the same way. For example, the husband takes for granted that ...

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The most appreciated and widely applied parenting programme in the world today is the Parental Effectiveness Training (P.E.T), which was devised by Thomas Gordon, an internationally reputed psychologist. Gordon developed the PET programme while intensively researching on humanist psychology at the University of Chicago, with assistance from Carl Rogers. This programme attained popularity when Gordon published a comprehensive book by the same name in the year 1970, which has been reviewed as under. The book revolves around the idea that every group interaction involves conflicts and differences of perspective that must be resolved in order to sustain the ...