Concept analysis of perspective-taking: meeting informal caregiver needs for communication competence and accurate perception

Journal of Advanced Nursing
Michelle M Lobchuk

Abstract

This paper is a report of an analysis of perspective-taking as presented in the nursing and psychological literature between 1972 and 2004. Little is known about the caregiving processes that drive communication competence in patient and informal caregiver relationships. Evidence to date suggests that the empathic perspective-taking process plays a key role in promoting communication competence, perceptual accuracy and enhanced ability by caregivers to meet patients' needs arising in illness. Perspective-taking is a concept that has been explored extensively in health or social psychology, but not in nursing literature. Guided by Morse's typology of attributes and rules of relation, the concept of perspective-taking is explored as it is presented in nursing and social psychology literature, and in accordance with Davis's empathy model. Extant research and theory suggest that perspective-taking is an interpersonal empathic process involving a conscious effort in differentiating one's view from the view of another that can bring the caregivers' viewpoints in closer alignment with patients' viewpoints. Beginning evidence suggests that observers might achieve accurate perceptual accuracy about patients' illness experiences if they ...Continue Reading

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