Teaching beginning group therapists to incorporate a patient's empathic capacity in treatment planning

Kleinberg, Jeffrey L.

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“…When empathy is viewed as a multiphase process sequence-inner resonation, communicative expression of this awareness, 1986). The wider context of practice in which the research was done is also the focus of a report in English (Mente, 1990) ' I Kleinberg (1991) reports on a pragmatic approach to assessing the capacity for empathy of prospective members of a therapy group before their final selection for the group medium The rationale was that with low capacity the individual would not contribute to an empathic, mutually facilitating climate in the group. Kleinberg attributes low empathy for others to an inability to recognize and articulate one's own feeling states, in effect, to a deficit in self-empathy (p. 142).…”

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The recovery of empathy--Toward others and self.

Barrett‐Lennard

1997

Empathy Reconsidered: New Directions in Psychotherapy.

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The aim of psychotherapy has many faces; even the purposes of a single broad approach lend themselves to differing emphases (Barrett-Lennard, 1990, p. 128). This chapter explores an aspect widely focused on as a crucial feature of therapist response but largely neglected as an axis of client change.In the perspective developed here, an impairment of empathy for others can be both an effect and a cause of suffering, and is frequently an implicit issue for the person seeking relief and help through psychotherapy. The voluntary client usually experiences deprivation in some form and anxiety or conflict within the self. He or she is likely to feel in fear of or unable to call on aspects of self. In other language, there are areas in which the person is not open to experience. One might say further that there is a loss or lack of self-empathy.To be able to speak carefully about self-empathy, an accompanying focus on the way that "self' is conceived is necessary. Building on prior person-centered thought, some fresh distinctions are worked out in the early part of this chapter. These lay the ground for inquiry into the process of selfempathy and its relation to interpersonal empathy. The growth of empathic engagement with self and others is viewed as a crucial potential effect of therapy and further explored in this context. Available evidence from research bearing on issues and ideas set forth is considered, and a plea is made for more directly pertinent studies.

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Section: Possible Future Directionsmentioning

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The recovery of empathy--Toward others and self.

Barrett‐Lennard

1997

Empathy Reconsidered: New Directions in Psychotherapy.

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“…The client-centred therapist has an empathic appreciation of the consumer's experience and communicates their desire to understand them. When participants feel a sense of empathic understanding from their facilitator, they are more likely to continue sharing and exploring their thoughts and feelings because they feel understood and accepted (Kleinberg, 1991).…”

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