Warmth / Empathy

What is Empathy?​

Resonating with what is going on in the subjective world of another

• Thoughts and emotions

Feeling as if you were living it

• Without losing the “as if”

• Carl Rogers: “walking within”
• Necessary for compassion​

Complex, interactional process with 3 components (MacFarland et al., 2015):

1.  – therapist attunes to client’s experience
2.  – therapist communication
3.  – client receives the communication

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