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Empathy means: |
Understand the problem of others but do not feel like them Compassion and pity towards others but no feelings for them Neither able to feel like others nor understand their plight Understand others' problems and feel like them |
Understand others' problems and feel like them |
The correct answer is Option (4) → Understand others' problems and feel like them Empathy is different from sympathy and intellectual understanding of another person’s situation. In sympathy, one has compassion and pity towards the suffering of another but is not able to feel like the other person. Intellectual understanding is cold in the sense that the person is unable to feel like the other person and does not feel sympathy either. On the other hand, empathy is present when one is able to understand the plight of another person, and feel like the other person. It means understanding things from the other person’s perspective, i.e. putting oneself in the other person’s shoes. Empathy enriches the therapeutic relationship and transforms it into a healing relationship. |
