“In society, we generally measure what we treasure. Traditionally, schools have measured children’s competence in subject areas. Roots of Empathy measures the affective side of children’s knowledge, understanding, and attitudes.”
– Mary Gordon, Founder/President, Roots of Empathy
La investigación sobre Roots of Empathy
A partir del año 2000, se han realizado numerosas evaluaciones independientes sobre la eficacia de Roots of Empathy.
Los principales hallazgos de las investigaciones revelan que conforme aumenta la empatía, los niños Roots of Empathy demuestran:
- Mayor conocimiento social y emocional
- Menor agresión, con una disminución de aproximadamente el 50% en la cantidad de niños que pelean
- Aumento del comportamiento prosocial (es decir, compartir, ayudar y ser inclusivo)
- Amento de la percepción entre los alumnos Roots of Empathy del aula como un ambiente solidario
- Mayor comprensión de los bebés y la crianza
En el 2001, se llevó a cabo en Manitoba un estudio aleatorizado, acelerado y longitudinal, el cual demostró que, en gran parte, los efectos beneficiosos del programa se mantenían o continuaban mejorando durante los años de seguimiento (disminución de la agresión física, disminución de la agresión indirecta y aumento de los comportamientos prosociales).
Un ensayo longitudinal, aleatorizado, controlado de conglomerados, realizado en Irlanda del Norte, encontró que Roots of Empathy tuvo un impacto positivo en aumentar el comportamiento prosocial en los niños y reducir su comportamiento agresivo y difícil. El estudio también reveló alguna evidencia de que los efectos relacionados con la disminución del comportamiento difícil podrían mantenerse durante tres años después de la participación en el programa. Se encontró además que el programa era rentable de acuerdo con las directrices nacionales.
Una evaluación del programa Roots of Empathy en Suiza, 2015-2017, demostró una reducción significativa de la agresión, en comparación con controles. Los resultados seguían vigentes un año después de haber concluido el programa.
Consejo Asesor en Investigación
Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is the author of four volumes on affect regulation, including his latest, The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy. Dr. Schore is Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of 35 journals across a number of scientific and clinical disciplines.
Dan Batson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 1972, was a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas from 1972-2008, and is a Professor Emeritus there. He now has a courtesy appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee. Dan is the author of The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer (Erlbaum Associates, 1991), the chapter in The Handbook of Social Psychology (4th ed.) on “Altruism and Prosocial Behavior” (McGraw-Hill, 1998), Altruism in Humans (Oxford University Press, 2011), and What’s Wrong with Morality? (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Dr. W. Thomas Boyce is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and heads the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at the the University of California, San Francisco. He was previously the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development. He is also Co-Director of CIFAR’s Child and Brain Development Program and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Susanne Denham is an applied developmental psychologist and Professor of psychology at George Mason University, with M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is also a nationally certified school psychologist. She is the author of two books, Emotional Development in Young Children and, with Dr. Rosemary Burton, Social and Emotional Prevention and Intervention Programming for Preschoolers, as well as numerous scholarly articles and presentations.
Lise Eliot is Professor of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science. A graduate of Harvard, she received her PhD in Cellular Physiology & Biophysics from Columbia University and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine before turning to public education about brain and gender development. She has published over 60 works, including the books, What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam), and Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps – And What We Can Do About It (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Dr. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl is an Applied Developmental Psychologist and a Professor in the Human Development, Learning, and Culture area in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. She is also the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership. She received her MA in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago, her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Iowa, and completed her postdoctoral work as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence at the University of Chicago and the Department of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Schonert-Reichl has over 100 publications in scholarly journals, book chapters, and reports and has edited two books on mindfulness in education, including a co-edited book with Dr. Robert W. Roeser Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research Into Practice (Springer Press, 2016).
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