AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Empathy occurs when another person is able to feel what someone else is feeling. So in the question when the therapist is attempting to see the world through the eyes of his client, he is trying to empathize with the client’s experiences and feelings.

Detailed explanation-2: -At higher levels, the therapist demonstrates in the moment understanding of the client’s perspective, attempts to adjust communication and voice accordingly, and responds in ways that help the client to explore, clarify, and explain their feelings and experiences.

Detailed explanation-3: -Empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand what the client is feeling. This refers to the therapist’s ability to understand sensitively and accurately [but not sympathetically] the client’s experience and feelings in the here-and-now.

Detailed explanation-4: -Empathy in counselling is about the counsellor seeing the client’s world as they see it. Empathy is to respectfully perceive what the client is bringing from their frame of reference and to communicate that back in a way that makes the client feel they’ve been understood.

Detailed explanation-5: -To show empathy means you can see and feel things from another person’s perspective while connecting on the same level. Sympathy, rather, is a less engaged response one might give when presented with someone else’s hardship.