Meredith Andrews
Bio:
Yors Garcia is a Board-certified behavior analyst that graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2011 with a Ph.D. in Meredith is a doctoral-level Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D).
She has been using behavior change methods to help people make meaningful differences since 2010. Her passion is teaching and disseminating behavioral science via hands-on learning experiences.
Abstract:
Chapter 33: PERSPECTIVE TAKING
A Relational Frame Approach to Understanding Perspective-Taking in Compassion and Social Justice
One important precursor to prosocial behavior is thinking about the suffering of those in need of help, or perspective-taking. Perspective-taking is an essential skill for navigating our social world and a deficit in this area may fuel social conflict, aggression, racial bias, prejudice, and many other social issues. In this chapter, we provide a behavior-analytic description of perspective-taking and its role in establishing compassion skills and utility in social justice. In particular, a relational frame approach to perspective-taking is presented in the first section of the chapter. In the following section, we present a relational frame description of compassion and the role of perspective-taking. In the last section of this chapter, we describe how perspective-taking influences social relations, in particular, social justice.
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