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WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS1-02] Training Empathic Healing
Wed. May 15, 2019 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Room 7 (1F Room C-1)
Organizer: Satang Supapon(Royal College of Family Physician of Thailand, Thailand)
Chair: Supattra Srivanichakorn(The general practitioner/Family physician association of Thailand/Royal College of Family Physician Thailand, Thailand)
Presenter: Satang Supapon, Sairat Noknoy(Royal College of Family Physician of Thailand, Thailand)
Empathy and healing are essential skills for family doctors to provide comprehensive care to patients. It’s about perceiving and understanding patient’s feelings and his/her internal psychological process. These are humanistic skills that family doctors use themselves to deal with emotional and spiritual illness. Approaching and dealing with patient’s feeling is not only “understanding” patients’ context and their rationalization, but doctors should really “feel” the internal process of patient’s mind. To achieve this, Family doctors have to learn to cultivate a healing power inside.
Empathy and healing training challenge the trainers to design teaching method which could develop sensing skills; “feeling the patient” without thinking or judging by using their own thought or mind. Effective training method should incorporate Transformative/ Contemplative learning to naturally enhance mindful practice, emotional sensitivity, and compassionate expression. It’s expected that this method will make the healer response to patient’s emotional distress in a helpful way and with confidence. How to train advance skills of deep listening, empathic communication, and basic counselling will be introduced and practiced, in this workshop.