{"id":10312,"date":"2024-05-01T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T11:01:21","slug":"what-is-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=10312","title":{"rendered":"What is empathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At its simplest, it is the awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people and a key indicator of emotional intelligence says DR VASILIOS SILIVISTRIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The dictionary defines empathy as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
\nEmpathy is a vicarious (experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person) emotional experience in which you feel and understand what another person feels.
\nThe English word Empathy is derived from the Ancient Greek word \u1f10\u03bc\u03c0\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 (empatheia) meaning physical affection, passion, partiality which comes from \u1f10\u03bd (en), in, at and \u03c0\u03ac\u03b8\u03bf\u03c2 (pathos), desire or suffering.
\nEmpathy is an important part of the counselling technique developed by the American psychologist Carl Ranson Rogers (1902-1987).
\nOne of the most important personality attributes is empathy, and a high level of empathy may lead to significant altruism and helping behaviour.
\nA lack of empathy could lead to a lack of helping behaviour or rude and insensitive comments. It is important to define empathy and gain an understanding of the meaning of empathy.
\nEmpathy is not simply perspective-taking. Although being able to see things from another person\u2019s perspective may result in the emotional experience of empathy, it is possible to adopt another person\u2019s perspective without experiencing empathy.
\nIf you are experiencing empathy, you feel happy when you observe a person expressing happiness and understanding the person\u2019s happiness.
\nIf you are experiencing empathy, you feel sad when you observe a person expressing sadness and understand the person\u2019s sadness.
\nThus, the above definition suggests that there are two elements of empathy: perspective-taking (understanding what another person feels), and vicarious emotion (feeling what another person feels).<\/p>\n

Empathy versus sympathy<\/strong>
\nAlthough sympathy and empathy are similar emotional responses, one could feel sympathy without experiencing empathy.
\nEmpathy, but not sympathy, may also require that one understands the person\u2019s feelings.
\nThus, if you feel sad when another person feels sad, but you do not understand why the person is feeling sad, the emotional response could be labelled as sympathy rather than empathy.
\nEmpathy is, at its simplest, awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people.
\nIt is a key element of Emotional Intelligence<\/strong>, the link between self and others because it is how we as individuals, understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling it ourselves.<\/p>\n

Empathy, sympathy and compassion<\/strong>
\nThere is an important distinction between empathy, sympathy and compassion.
\nBoth compassion and sympathy are about feeling for someone: seeing their distress and realising that they are suffering. Compassion has taken on an element of action that is lacking in sympathy, but the root of the words is the same.
\nEmpathy, by contrast, is about experiencing those feelings for yourself, as if you were that person, through the power of imagination.<\/p>\n

Three types of empathy<\/strong>
\nPsychologists have identified three types of empathy:
\nCognitive empathy: <\/strong>understanding someone\u2019s thoughts and emotions in a very rational, rather than emotional sense.
\nEmotional empathy: <\/strong>when you quite literally feel the other person\u2019s emotions alongside them as if you had \u2018caught\u2019 their emotions.
\nCompassionate empathy: <\/strong>understanding someone\u2019s feelings and taking appropriate action to help.<\/p>\n

In addition, empathy is core in the therapeutic practice to create a safe and confidential therapeutic relationship with the client.<\/p>\n

Dr Vasilios Silivistris (Vasos) is a psychotherapist, counselling practitioner <\/strong>psychotherapycounselling.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
\n– Empathy is a key indicator of emotional intelligence.
\n– Empathy is derived from the Ancient Greek word \u1f10\u03bc\u03c0\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 (empatheia) meaning physical affection, passion, partiality.
\n– Empathy is an important part of counselling techniques.
\n– A lack of empathy could lead to a lack of helping behavior or rude comments.
\n– Empathy involves perspective-taking and vicarious emotion.
\n– Empathy is different from sympathy, as empathy requires understanding the person’s feelings.
\n– Empathy is about experiencing feelings as if you were that person through the power of imagination.
\n– There are three types of empathy: cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and compassionate empathy.
\n– Empathy is core in therapeutic practice to create a safe and confidential relationship with the client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7443,3,6822,7255,8541,8540,250,3330,2738,3331,1004,8257,8542,494],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-awareness","tag-cyprus","tag-distress","tag-emotional-experience","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-empathy","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-happiness","tag-news","tag-power","tag-response","tag-therapeutic-practice","tag-uk"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\nWhat is empathy?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"empathy. empathy, emotional intelligence, therapeutic practice\" 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