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Empathy Assessment Essay Examples

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Most of my relationships began in my teenage years at Secondary School/ High School. It was there I learnt the true definition of friendship and how to truly care, sympathize and empathize with others. Trustworthiness played an important role, I felt like I was the go to person for each of my friends. Caring for the people close to me and those that were only acquaintances became second nature. I try never to make it my business to prey, but there is some quality in me that definitely stands out as a person who cares enough to act upon whatever the case. My empathy assessment showed that I scored a seventy, which is a high empathy level. Which means that I understand how other people feel in most cases, so I share emotions and feelings. I hate …show more content…

She has displayed the ability to understand many situations I've gone through and has managed to put herself in my place in the situation. One such example of this display of empathy happened a few months ago. I was pregnant and living in New York while my partner lived in Texas. I was caught between a rock and a hard place. I needed to move to Texas because my living conditions in New York were not the best (I lived with my aunt and her family & there wasn't enough room to accommodate me and the baby). My partner was on a lease which we preferred not breaking in order to save some money, and this left me in a tough position of where I would stay until his lease was up. Janice showed great concern for my situation and came up with a few suggestions one of which was to allow me to move in with her for the few months left on my partner's lease until we were able to get a new apartment to move into. She did not have to go this extra mile but chose to. Her ability to comfort me in a time of struggle and genuinely reach out of her way to help truly showed a high level of

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