Joelle Ruben, M. (2015, March/April). Can Social work Students Learn Empathy? Social Work Today, Vol.15 No.2 P.12. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
In his article “Can Social work Students Learn Empathy?” Joelle Ruben, MSW (2015) discusses how teachers and students hassle the Importance of empathy in the classroom, and how researchers have argued whether this is a trait that can be learned. The writer presents three key points in the article, A Moving Target, More Questions than Answers, Empathy 's Mirror Image and Creative Approach. Furthermore, the article begins by giving an example of two social workers and their personal experience, excluding their time in a classroom. However, both undergraduate students give some recognition to their professor …show more content…
Before reading this piece, I thought empathy only existed for people who were born with good hearts, or spirituality connect with the things of God. But the literature have transported me to the educational part, which is very essential to humanity. I agreed to what the article says about teaching and demonstrating empathy to social work students in the classroom. This will give students the opportunity to learn about others classmate 's culture. Markedly, anyone who wants to become a social worker must learn how to understand client 's emotions. As a professional the worker objective is to improve the living conditions of those who are in hardship. What is important to keep in mind that social worker should never judge to client 's …show more content…
However, this is a difficult task for a student to achieve with all the High school demanding and the distress of recovering. Different kinds of help has been provided to students by people and places. Unfortunately, the ending result was unpleasant, after finishing their treatment many of them collapse into their old lifestyle of substance use disorder. On the other hand, the article has six significant steps to reveal the difficult process students have faced. These are the Background, Education, Recovery, Benefits, Drawbacks and Advocacy. Indeed, these steps support students by showing the struggles day go through in high school, but most importantly, that without support students will hardly make
In his article “Can Social work Students Learn Empathy?” Joelle Ruben, MSW (2015) discusses how teachers and students hassle the Importance of empathy in the classroom, and how researchers have argued whether this is a trait that can be learned. The writer presents three key points in the article, A Moving Target, More Questions than Answers, Empathy 's Mirror Image and Creative Approach. Furthermore, the article begins by giving an example of two social workers and their personal experience, excluding their time in a classroom. However, both undergraduate students give some recognition to their professor …show more content…
Before reading this piece, I thought empathy only existed for people who were born with good hearts, or spirituality connect with the things of God. But the literature have transported me to the educational part, which is very essential to humanity. I agreed to what the article says about teaching and demonstrating empathy to social work students in the classroom. This will give students the opportunity to learn about others classmate 's culture. Markedly, anyone who wants to become a social worker must learn how to understand client 's emotions. As a professional the worker objective is to improve the living conditions of those who are in hardship. What is important to keep in mind that social worker should never judge to client 's …show more content…
However, this is a difficult task for a student to achieve with all the High school demanding and the distress of recovering. Different kinds of help has been provided to students by people and places. Unfortunately, the ending result was unpleasant, after finishing their treatment many of them collapse into their old lifestyle of substance use disorder. On the other hand, the article has six significant steps to reveal the difficult process students have faced. These are the Background, Education, Recovery, Benefits, Drawbacks and Advocacy. Indeed, these steps support students by showing the struggles day go through in high school, but most importantly, that without support students will hardly make