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Empathy: You can acquire it

Gary Direnfeld

With emotional empathy we can feel what another is feeling. With cognitive empathy we don’t really connect on a feeling level with the experience of other. Where a person may be lacking emotional empathy, then cognitive empathy can be learned. Broadly speaking we can differentiate two types: cognitive and emotional.

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Autism Social Skills Training: Strategies for Developing Empathy

Relias

Client Consultant the Center for Spectrum Services. Through SST, clients are exposed to scenarios designed to help them better understand and act on: Displays of empathy. The following four practices are evidence-based ways of teaching social skills such as empathy, conversation techniques, and more. R, Q.C.S.W.,

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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies. But it has limits in nuanced situations requiring true empathy. He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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If You Don’t Want Your Kids to Grow up and Be a Narcissist

Gary Direnfeld

As we teach kids about others who have needs unable to be met themselves, we teach about empathy. Extend yourself modeling altruistic behavior built on empathy. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Even Counselors are Challenged by Narcissists

Gary Direnfeld

When I consult to counselors these situations, they are often showing some of the signs of distress as their child/teen clients. The consultation is directed towards helping the counselor better understand the disposition and motivations of the narcissist as well as how to set boundaries as inoffensively as possible.

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Managing the Coached Child Between Separated Parents

Gary Direnfeld

If however the parent shrugs it off, expresses empathy for the child caught in the middle and then redirects to what ever else they are about to do, then the prediction of the other parent falls flat. Then, if the parent does react negatively, it creates the impression that the other parent really knows what they are talking about.

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When Your Teen Escalates

Gary Direnfeld

Once the parent gets a grip on themselves, empathy for the teen is required. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Sadly this too only escalates anger, distress and conflict. They feel thwarted.