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Empathy: You can acquire it

Gary Direnfeld

With emotional empathy we can feel what another is feeling. With cognitive empathy we don’t really connect on a feeling level with the experience of other. Where a person may be lacking emotional empathy, then cognitive empathy can be learned. Broadly speaking we can differentiate two types: cognitive and emotional.

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Consider Yourself and Empath?

Gary Direnfeld

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. I am available in person and by video conferencing. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

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When Your Kid Comes Home Cranky

Gary Direnfeld

Next comes the empathy, again no solution or critical feedback. Just empathy. Just empathy. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Allow a pause. That’s a lot.”

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How Do You Want to Be Known? Consider Humane.

Gary Direnfeld

No empathy. Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW gary@yoursocialworker.com www.yoursocialworker.com for counseling and support www.garydirenfeld.com – to build your successful practice Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Few will want to drown. Those are folks some others complain about. Perhaps even scorn. What of our humanity.

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If You Don’t Want Your Kids to Grow up and Be a Narcissist

Gary Direnfeld

As we teach kids about others who have needs unable to be met themselves, we teach about empathy. Extend yourself modeling altruistic behavior built on empathy. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Even Counselors are Challenged by Narcissists

Gary Direnfeld

When I consult to counselors these situations, they are often showing some of the signs of distress as their child/teen clients. The consultation is directed towards helping the counselor better understand the disposition and motivations of the narcissist as well as how to set boundaries as inoffensively as possible.

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Managing the Coached Child Between Separated Parents

Gary Direnfeld

If however the parent shrugs it off, expresses empathy for the child caught in the middle and then redirects to what ever else they are about to do, then the prediction of the other parent falls flat. Then, if the parent does react negatively, it creates the impression that the other parent really knows what they are talking about.