week 3: therapeutic relationships pt 2 Flashcards
who is carl rogers?
- a founder of the client-centered approach to psychotherapy
- developed person-centered therapy that focuses on congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy
what are the core dimensions of helping?
- responsive dimensions
- action dimensions
what is the responsive dimension of helping?
focuses on:
- respect
- genuineness
- concreteness
what is the action dimension of helping?
focuses on:
- confrontation
- self-disclosure
- immediacy
- catharsis (process of releasing strong or repressed emotions to find relief)
- role playing
what are theresa wiseman’s defining attributes of empathy?
- see the world as others see it
- understand other’s feelings
- non-judgmental
- communicate the understanding
what are the 3 stages of empathy?
- self transposition
- crossing-over
- getting “self” back
what is the self transposition stage of empathy?
we listen carefully and seek to put ourselves in the client’s place
what is the crossing-over stage of empathy?
- an emotional shift from thinking to feeling
- a deepening understanding
- different from sympathy
what is the getting “self” back stage of empathy?
we have heart felt understanding of the experience just shared
what are the steps to communicate empathically?
- the preverbal step
- the verbal step
what is the preverbal step to communicating empathically?
the mental process where the nurse shifts from their world into the client’s world
what is the verbal step to communicating empathically?
- accurately and specifically reflecting your understanding
- not repeating verbatim
- choose words that say what you mean
what is the experience based approach to develop empathy?
to improve “tuning in” to another’s internal states
what is the expression based approach to develop empathy?
focusing on the response portion to another’s internal states
what is the traditional approach of interventions?
one that aims to bolster empathic ability (fake it)
