#EMPATHETIC LISTENING MEANS PROFESSIONAL#

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#EMPATHETIC LISTENING MEANS PROFESSIONAL#

Relationships between nurses' empathy, self-compassion and dimensions of professional quality of life: A cross-sectional study. Empathy fatigue: How stress and trauma can take a toll on you.ĭuarte J, Pinto-Bouveia J, Cruz B. Social and emotional support and its implication for health. The truth and reconciliation process seeks to heal relations between opposing sides by uncovering all pertinent facts, distinguishing truth from lies, and allowing for acknowledgement, appropriate public mourning, forgiveness and healing…The focus often is on giving victims, witnesses and even perpetrators a chance to publicly tell their stories without fear of prosecution.Reblin M, Uchino BN. The Greensboro TRC states its purpose as such:“About,” Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission website, accessed July 13, 2012. The goal of such commissions is to allow people to tell their stories, share their perspectives in an open environment, and be listened to. The first TRC in the United States occurred in Greensboro, North Carolina, as a means of processing the events and aftermath of November 3, 1979, when members of the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed five members of the Communist Worker’s Party during a daytime confrontation witnessed by news crews and many bystanders.

The most well-known example of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) occurred in South Africa as a way to address the various conflicts that occurred during apartheid.Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, Truth and Reconciliation Commission website, accessed July 13, 2012. An excellent example of critical and empathetic listening in action is the international Truth and Reconciliation movement. In order to reach dialogue, people must have a degree of open-mindedness and a commitment to civility that allows them to be empathetic while still allowing them to believe in and advocate for their own position.

We should keep in mind that sometimes others just need to be heard and our feedback isn’t actually desired.Įmpathetic listening is key for dialogue and helps maintain interpersonal relationships. It’s often much easier for us to tell our own story or to give advice than it is to really listen to and empathize with someone else. Because of our own centrality in our perceptual world, empathetic listening can be difficult. Wolvin and Carolyn Gwynn Coakley (Norwood, NJ: Alex Publishing Corporation, 1993), 188.Empathetic listening is other oriented and should be genuine. Sympathy is generally more self-oriented and distant than empathy.Tom Bruneau, “Empathy and Listening,” in Perspectives on Listening, eds. While the word empathy means to “feel into” or “feel with” another person,sympathy means to “feel for” someone. Empathetic listening is distinct from sympathetic listening. Empathetic listening is the most challenging form of listening and occurs when we try to understand or experience what a speaker is thinking or feeling.

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