virtue ethics and empathy Flashcards
virtues
-Morally good traits that everyone
either may possess or can learn
-dictate behaviors
Healthcare professional virtues
-care
-compassion
-discernment
-trustworthiness
-integrity
-conscientiousness
define care
-emotional commitment
-willingness to act on behalf of someone you have a significant relationship
define compassion
-prelude to caring
-active regard for another’s wellbeing combined with empathy
-capacity to feel sorrow for another’s suffering
Define discernment
-ability to make decisions and judgements without being influences by extraneous considerations
define trustworthiness
-merit in one’s character and conduct
define integrity
-soundness
-reliability
-wholeness
-integration of moral character
-objectivity
-impartial
-fidelity to moral norms
define conscientiousness
-doing what is right because it is right
-trying to determine what is right
empathy
-The ability to recognize, understand, and share the thoughts and feelings of
another person
-needed for relationships and behaving compassionately
-see from another’s POV
Two aspects of empathy
-affective: range of emotional responses to what others feel, “emotional resonance”
-cognitive: understand another persons state of mind, “perspective taking”
4 Challenges with empathy
1)similarity bias: relate more to those who resemble you
2)Psycological distress: compassion fatigue and burnout
3)fake empathy
4)”expert of patient’s experience”: imagine but not know what a patient is going through
how are virtues and ethics related
-Ethics is about how to live a good life and make good choices
-virtues are one approach to a system of ethics that explains how to live a good life and make good choices (live in accordance
with virtue)
Explain the connection between empathy and virtues
empathy is needed for compassion, one of the healthcare virtues
