According to the Merriam dictionary, “Empathy” is defined as: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this.…
I know that empathy means to try to see it through their eyes and feel what they feel.…
After observing the outside of the venue and its surroundings, I entered Out of Town News in order to interact directly with its proprietors and patrons and to find out more about the venue. The observations and insights I gathered supported my initial hypothesis, stated above. Inside the…
One of my biggest strengths is that my friends and family feel that they can count on me to be fair when it comes to decision making or helping people see each other’s point of view. My friends and family know that even though I may not agree with something they did, I can try to understand why they did what they did. When it comes to school group projects or having a…
Empathy, to me, means that everyone should have the same opportunity as everyone else. That everyone should be given the same chance. It should be up to you to how you use that opportunity. In Harrison Bergeron it's believed that equality means that everyone should be the same in every way and that this is a good thing. I disagree with this completely.…
Empathy- having the ability to put yourself in another persons’ place and understand how they feel.…
Empathy: the fundamental quality according to Carl Rogers. The ability to communicate understanding of another’s experience from that persons perspective.…
Gerdes, K, E. And Segal, E. A (2009) A Social Work model of empathy. Advances in social work. Vol 10. No 2. (Fall 2009), 114-127…
3- Barret –Lennard , G.T.(1993)The phases and focus of Empathy. British Journal of Medical Psychology,66 pp.3-14…
My strengths are fortitude and sometimes a form of compassion. I am resilient when faced with obstacles and work hard to overcome them. I find myself drawn to people who work the same as I do. Because of the high value I place on equality I can demonstrate compassion for others. I care about the community as a whole but also care about individual members.…
Obtaining empathy and being able to separate it from sympathy is a great and necessary thing for human service workers. Accurate empathy is correctly perceiving the feelings of another person without being captured by the victim's emotions. Sympathy however, is actually feeling what the victim feels. This may prevent him/her from being objective n a helping relationship, since he/she is likely to be caught up in the victim's emotions. The key to accurate empathy is understanding the pain of the victim while remaining in a neutral position.…
Empathy is a fundamental aspect of the functioning of social relationships. The ability to accurately read nonverbal signals of others, participate in perspective-taking, identify emotional states in the self and others, and invest in other's emotions are all integral parts of the relationships between individuals. Deficits in any of these aspects of the empathic process can cause and signal various problems that can impact individuals and those around them. A condition such as autism involves deficits in the ability to decode nonverbal communication and affects the cognitive ability to engage in accurate perspective- taking, but does not itself involve a lack of concern for other's feelings when they are understood. Another condition- antisocial…
According to the dictionary, empathy is defined as “the understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives”. I find it difficult to understand that a person could lack such consideration and compassion for another living creature, but, clearly, I have seen otherwise. On many occasions, I have witnessed disconcerting behavior both aimed at myself, or other individuals and have questioned the our society's complacent moral standards. For as long as I can remember, my ability to treat others with kindness has been second nature, and a vital part in my moral practices and beliefs. Faced with many challenges during my childhood, my empathetic disposition was not only enhanced, but, undoubtedly, the strongest building block in my ethical…
patient" (Brown, et al., 2009). The distinct difference is "empathy is a preferred skill and…
Human behavior is exceedingly complicated and it is impossible to categorize the motives behind all of our actions under the singular primary reasoning. Despite this, various philosophers such as Hobbes and Nietzsche have supported that egoism as the most prominent explanation for all motivation and actions. Fitting all of human motivation into one concept would be an injustice to the beautiful complexity of the human mind; assuming that there is one underlying reasoning to all of humankind’s actions ignores how complex social interactions, human thought, and decision-making can be. Instead, we must adopt an alternative theory on human interactions with others with incorporates both an egoistic and altruistic viewpoint. A well-supported alternative…