Kristina M Kays 'Caring To Change Our World'

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Critique of Caring to Change Our World
The American Psychological Association offers a valuable resource in the form of the PsycCRITIQUES database housing a library psychology media revies. Formerly published as a hard copy print journal titled Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, the database provides reviews of current published resources as written by industry professional (American Psychological Association [APA], n.d.). One such review as written by Kristina M. Kays “Caring to Change Our World,” discusses the book “Developing Empathy: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents,” authored by Katharina Manassis. Here within you will find a critical analysis of Kays’ review.
Kristina M. Kays provides a robust description of Katharina Manassis’ text, “Developing Empathy: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents,” positing current society and human interactions as lacking in empathy, as noted in …show more content…

9) such as professionals within the field of psychology, identifying a potential area of further examination of this audience. While doing so Kays also comments on how the book would be helpful to “parents…and child development field,” yet potentially requires further clarification. Within the concluding paragraph Kays’ support and endorse the book becomes very clear as she validates the book’s author as an “authentic voice” (p. 9) in experiencing and expressing empathy by divulging Manassis’ experience of “tragic personal loss and challenge” (p. 9). These comments along with other in the final paragraph of this review, liken back to Kays original claim of current society and human interactions as lacking in

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