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What is 'Empathy'? How it is different from sympathy?

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• Empathy is an intellectual understanding of another person’s situation.

• Empathy is present when one is able to understand the plight of another person and feel like other person.

• Empathy means understanding things from the other person's perspective, i.e., putting oneself in the other person's shoes.

• Empathy enriches the therapeutic relationship and develops a healing relationship.

• It is a cognitive process.

Sympathy is different from empathy.

• It is compassion and pity towards the suffering of another but not being able to feel like the other person.

• It is an affective process.

Some More Questions From Therapeutic Approaches And Counselling Chapter

Explain with the help of an example how cognitive distortions take place.

Which therapy encourages the client to seek personal growth and actualise their potential? Write about the therapies which are based on this principle.

What are the factors that contribute to healing in psychotherapy? Enumerate some of the alternative therapies.

What are the techniques used in the rehabilitation of the mentally ill?

How would a social learning theorist account for a phobic fear of lizards/cockroaches? How would a psychoanalyst account for the same phobia?

Should Electro-convulsive Therapy (ECT) be used in the treatment of mental disorders?

What kind of problems is cognitive behaviour therapy best suited for?

What do you understand by the term 'counselling'? Explain the characteristics of an effective counsellor.

To be an effective counsellor, it is mandatory that he/she undergoes professional training. Do you agree with this statement? Give reasons in support of your arguments.

What are the ethical considerations in client-counsellor relationships?

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