Empathy And Counseling: Person Centered Therapy

Empathy and Counseling

For this paper I will be discussing the steps of empathy and what it means to be empathetic to patients and people. I watched a short video by Carl Rogers called “Person Centered Therapy” in this video there was a lot of incite as to how a professional is supposed to interact not only to his/her patients but to the people around them. I will be reviewing a few peer reviewed articles regarding empathy and be discussing my thoughts on them, in addition to this I took a day to put the steps that I learned to work regarding empathy and I will share my thoughts on the outcome.
Literature Review Subjective empathy enables a counselor to momentarily experience what it is like to be a client, interpersonal empathy relates to understanding a client 's phenomenological experiencing, and objective empathy uses reputable knowledge sources outside of a client 's frame of reference. Across the counseling process, empathy is integral to treatment strategies and interventions (Clark, 2010). In the counseling and Psychotherapy literature, empathy has been identified as crucial to successful outcomes. (Gladstein, 1983).
For example, in a cognitive—behavioral theory empathy is defined as a process that fosters a collaborative alliance; in a humanistic theory empathy is sensing another person 's feelings as if one were that other person. In a psychodynamic theory, empathy is defined as experiencing the inner life of another while retaining objectivity argued that empathy is more an internal condition, a characteristic that depends on qualities intrinsic to one 's personality rather than a communication skill (Carlozzi,