Affiliation:
1. Clinical Manager, Chase Lodge Care Ltd, Weston-super-Mare, UK
Abstract
Fiction can be a ‘powerful tool’ for understanding. This article looks at how narrative fiction can be of use to help engender empathy in mental health nurses. It examines the role of empathy within the therapeutic relationship and suggests that reading literature can not only help to developing skills but that it can be incorporated into reflective practice as part of continuing professional development. Beyond this, the skills learned through reading fiction sit well alongside the use of other forms of creative arts in recovery programmes.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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