Social Connectedness and Flourishing: The Mediating Role of Hopelessness

A full doctoral dissertation on whether empathy can be deliberately trained, with several intervention studies and their results. The most in-depth treatment of empathy in this collection.

Erika Weisz

A chapter on the social and emotional skills that make relationships work: communication, conflict, compassion, inclusion, and resisting pressure. Written with young people in mind but applicable well beyond that.

Sue Roffey

A short review separating empathy from sympathy and from emotional intelligence, and arguing that empathic communication is a skill that can be taught. Written for people in caring roles.

Ioannidou F and Konstantikaki V