Doing empathy and sympathy: Caring responses to troubles tellings on a peer support line

Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-288

  Pudlinski, Christopher ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community mental health; Empathy; Helplines; Social support; Sympathy; Telephone interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144449766     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445605052177     Document Type: Article

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