Empathy is the ability to identify, understand, and share the feelings of others. In Parrott and Parrot (2005) “The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring”, article “Real-Life Examples of Walking in Another Couple’s Shoes”, the situation arise in a mentoring of an engaged couple to show empathy, after discovering the truth about the couple living arrangement, and knowing where the church stand regarding cohabitation before marriage, through empathy the mentors where able to understand the couple and also to help them to gain knowledge from a Biblical and Secular sources, having knowledge enable the couple to make an informed decision concerning their living arrangement.
According to Carl Roger’s 1964 work on the multi-model of empathy as it …show more content…
Counselor’s “for a brief period of time seek to understand what it is like to be the client, this involves the process of identification, and imagination,”, while “identification assists the counselor in experiencing the client’s experiences as if they were their own, imagination assist the counselor for a brief period of time to evoke images and emotional reactions that may be similar to the client” (Clark, 2010).
Counselors that empathizes with a client often feel a kinship with the individual because they are able to see themselves in the client’s experiences. Through use of Carl Roger’s models, , even if it’s just for a fleeting period of time, counselors are encourage to place themselves in the clients place, this produces empathy, empathy creates a safe place for genuine communication, to take place this helps the counselor to be more empathic to their clients, thus helping them to reach a conclusion regarding
According to Carl Roger’s 1964 work on the multi-model of empathy as it …show more content…
Counselor’s “for a brief period of time seek to understand what it is like to be the client, this involves the process of identification, and imagination,”, while “identification assists the counselor in experiencing the client’s experiences as if they were their own, imagination assist the counselor for a brief period of time to evoke images and emotional reactions that may be similar to the client” (Clark, 2010).
Counselors that empathizes with a client often feel a kinship with the individual because they are able to see themselves in the client’s experiences. Through use of Carl Roger’s models, , even if it’s just for a fleeting period of time, counselors are encourage to place themselves in the clients place, this produces empathy, empathy creates a safe place for genuine communication, to take place this helps the counselor to be more empathic to their clients, thus helping them to reach a conclusion regarding