Interpersonal Empathy Through A Relational Process

Empathic responses are vital to building a therapeutic relationship between a social worker and client. Empathy is also vital to the decision making and changing process that takes place within a client (Feller & Cottone, 2003). The empathy will be conveyed to the client and family through both verbal and non-verbal cues. Due to the language barrier and the need of an interrupter, the social worker must ensure that the non-verbal cues express the empathetic and authentic responses being given. Each engagement strategy that is deployed aids in the rapport established between the client and social worker.

Most common supports provided by Human Services professionals now are counseling, advocacy, and care giving. Having empathy is essential for all Human Service professionals, when working with their clients. “Empathy involves the willingness and ability to truly understand a client’s beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and experiences from the client’s own perspective” (Martin, 2007). Being able to understand that most times when an individual is in a crisis, they are only responding naturally to the traumas in their lives will enable the Human Services professional to assist their client more effectively.

Empathy should play an active role in the daily lives of everyone, but in particular in the day-to-day lives of a healthcare professional. Healthcare professionals have the unique and challenging job of counseling patients in times of need, whether that is in the setting of a newly diagnosed disease or in the death of a family member. This unique challenge requires all healthcare professionals to be skilled at using empathy in the appropriate circumstances.

Therapeutic relationship is defined as the collaboration and attachment between the client and therapist that focuses on meeting the health care needs of the client (Bordin, 1979). In this relationship, the therapist without prejudice shows Empathy, insight, understanding and acceptance of the client. Duan and Hill (1996) defined Empathy as “feeling into” the experience of the client. Over the years, the research evidence keeps piling up, and indicating a high degree of Empathy in a Therapeutic relationship is possibly one of the most potent factors in bringing about positive outcome in the therapy

Empathy is a vital ingredient of supportive relationships. A lot of scholars argued that empathy furnishes health care professionals with the capacity to improve patient’s health ,thus it must be taught to make them more responsive to patient’s health [ Journal article: Developing Empathy in Nursing students:A cohort longhitudinal study page 1]

With a great point to start off from, Cooper talks on research’s importance as something that gives this amazingly rounder concept of the working world, inner workings of our minds and depth to the complexity of the human condition. And, it comes with a catch. Trusting the skepticism of science and be skeptical of yourself and research, self-critical and to the best of knowledge just humble in the workings of science. It is not a toy to wave around all willy nilly. The talk on empathy especially got me as an individual who has went through a lot of stuff as well. When I become a counselor, say I have a gentleman that comes into my office who has an amazing career as a headliner in the best drag queen bars in Chicago. There is not a way I would be able to understand what his experience in life is like unless I use the power of conversation (more so science). Or, becoming a headline drag queen myself. Why is empathy such a difficult skill to teach or wrap around? Counselors are people who have to constantly collect data on feelings, thoughts, behaviors, aptitudes and

Empathy is the ability to understand the situation and share the feelings and also be able to identify a client's experiences. A counsellor must be able to imagine how it feels to be in a client's shoes and manage to understand the situation from their point of view. "Empathy has been described in different ways: walking in another's shoes, entering into another person's frame of reference or having the ability to experience life as the other person does by entering the person's world of thoughts, feelings, emotions and meanings", (Martha,2012) .In the other hand, the good counsellor still have the ability to be understanding even though the they are not agree with the client's perspective in order to solve the client's issues effectively.

At the heart of the client’s and counsellor relationship is empathy. I will look at the importance of empathy being applied within the therapeutic relationship.

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Healthcare leaders are focusing on people by attracting, engaging developing and retaining the world’s best personnel in building a quality patient center care organization. In viewing “real people,’ it is not only important to understand what they go through as our patients it more important to empathize and recognize their concerns when encountering adverse situations and by setting precedence limit these experiences by instituting a commitment to creating an atmosphere of tranquility. However, how do we start to figure out all our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats Module 6 (2017), of course in the way of providing annual educational training for the staff in empathy, teaching on understanding the emotional needs of our patients as well as the physical, need.

The development topic of empathy is shown in Chapter Two. Empathy is the ability to understand the emotions and concerns of another person. In this chapter Maya describes a time when she was five and her Uncle Willie was not using his cane and trying to stand up straight as two travelers were in the store. In the book Maya explains how her uncle is tired of being disabled and just for that moment he wanted to appear normal. Maya narrates how she, “understood and felt closer to him at that moment than ever before”. Maya is in the psychological development of early childhood and has started to develop moral emotions from her increase in social experiences between her family and the customers of the store. Maya at the age of five comprehends

Human empathy has homologous characteristics of both broadly and strictly congruent mirror neurons. Upon swift introspection, it is apparent that human empathy is not exclusively based in physical stimuli (i.e. strictly congruent), but is also emotionally based and invokes higher levels of thinking. When we are empathetic towards an other we surely consider the context and frame of reference surrounding a situation (i.e. broadly congruent) and integrate that with our perceptions of an individual, but in no ways could this complex task be reduced to a simple reflex. Emotion and as well as our own experiences are integral in creating the complex context that determine our level of empathetic processing.

My parents always talk about how I was a really mean kid. I think the reason for this was because I really didn’t care how others felt. As I grew older I developed empathy. I can look back on my life and see a correlation with the amount of reading I completed, and the the expansion of my empathy. Empathy is important because it helps you connect with people, and it helps you understand people’s motives. As a teacher knowing these things helps because I interact with people everyday in both my personal and professional life.

As part of the St. Anne School Middle School Character Education program, the 7th grade’s current focus is on Empathy and Communication. Empathy and communication skills are linked to school success, healthy relationships, and decreased problem behaviors. Last Friday, the students engaged in self-reflection regarding hopes and plans, challenges and things that might be of concern, and social skills for their 7th grade year. After the brainstorm, the students were in groups of eight and delved into a Create-A-Story Challenge. This activity’s collaborative aim was to have the students interpret expressions and body language in a series of photos. The follow-up activity will be a group exchange for the students to notice what helped them

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