Empathy

Question 1

What are the three main modes of expressing therapeutic empathy?

Answer 1

empathetic rapport, communicative attunement, person empathy

Question 2

What is empathetic rapport?

Answer 2

exhibiting a compassionate attitude, demonstrating understanding of the clients experience, and setting the tone for therapeutic treatment.

Question 3

What is communicative attunement?

Answer 3

an active, ongoing effort to stay moment by moment, in tune with the clients communication and effectively understanding and reflecting the clients communication and unfolding experiences

Question 4

What is person empathy?

Answer 4

A sustained effort to understand the clients experiences that form the background for their current experience

Question 5

Which measure of empathy most predicts outcome of therapy?

Answer 5

Client-recieved empathy

Question 6

What are the six conditions hypothesised by Rodgers for therapeutic change to occur?

Answer 6

Counsellor genuineness, unconditional positive regard, OSBDOSBD

Question 7

What are the three neuroanatomically based subprocesses involved in empathy?

Answer 7

a) Emotional Stimulation (Mirroring emotional elements of the others bodily experience) b) Conceptual-perspective taking process (prefrontal/temporal) c) Emotion regulation, used to soothe personal distress, then mobilizing helping behaviour

Question 8

Empathetic understanding responses are…

Answer 8

responses that convey understanding of client experience

Question 9

Empathetic affirmations …

Answer 9

attempts by the therapist to validate the clients perspective

Question 10

Empathetic evocations…

Answer 10

try to bring the clients experience alive by using rich, evocative language. often probing.

Question 11

Empathetic conjectures…

Answer 11

Attempt to get at what is implicit in clients narratives but not yet articulated. Guesses.

Question 12

Describe the purported 3 components of the psychotherapy relationship, the working alliance, the transference configuration, and the real relationship.

Answer 12

1. Working Alliance. Joining of the reasonable self of the client and the therapist for the purpose of the work to wards mutually agreed upon goals.
2. Transference configuration. Distortions from both the client and the therapist - feelings and expectations that the other has not ‘earned’.
3. Real relationship. Dimension of the relationship independent of transference. Genuine and realistic