Social Work Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Schools and broader support networks such as sports and churches often lack the awareness or empathy to address these struggles adequately in order to support adoptive families. Creating a Secure Emotional Environment A parent who understands their own inner world is better equipped to model emotional regulation and empathy for their child.

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The New Social Worker

APRIL 18, 2022

This need is even more crucial when we’re engaged with human dynamics that require intense engagement, empathy, and advocacy. Social Workers Are Human. As such, we must attend to our human-ness.

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Gateway Foundation

APRIL 30, 2025

Here are some thoughtful, practical ways to offer support with empathy and care: 1. Familiarizing yourself with its symptoms and challenges can help you respond with greater empathy and awareness. Listen Without Judgement Sometimes, the best thing you can offer is your presence.

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Center for Child Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This training inspired me to confront my own anxiety and mental health, cultivating a greater sense of empathy and self-awareness. By understanding the science of trauma and prioritizing empathy, we can create lasting change. Lifes challengeswhether rooted in trauma or notconnect us in ways we often overlook.

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Social Work Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Empathy fatigue has hardened the emotional disconnection between you and yourself. Taking a one-minute pause can help. You’re highly productive but emotionally numb. You’re checking all the boxes, but you feel nothing. You show up, but you don’t feel present anymore. Reconnect with yourself.

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Relias

MAY 28, 2025

Providing IDD services is often a personal and intimate experience, and it can be difficult to quantify the characteristics so important to person-centered care respect for the individual, kindness, empathy, patience.

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University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2025

Patricia Wilcox, LCSW Live Webinar Wed, June 18, 2025 10 am – 12 pm 2 CECs Recently social service agencies have been acknowledging the effects of working with, feeling empathy for, and having responsibility for trauma survivors.

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My Brains Not Broken

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Whether it’s understanding or empathy for myself, sitting with those feelings is difficult. It’s exhausting, it’s taxing and to be honest, I’m not always up to the task. And in those moments, I do have trouble feeling. But I remember that I don’t always feel this way.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Instead of heading down a wrong path, Jacobson said she chose the path of empathy. “It’s the birth of a social worker on a micro-level,” said Jacobson. They learn from pain, which is how people become compassionate.” It’s an example of how you can take your own struggles and use them for good.”

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Here is a summary of our findings: Overall, the poverty simulation changed students understanding of what it is like to live in poverty and empathy for people who experience poverty. It allows them to experience the stressors of poverty and walk away with more empathy toward people living in poverty.

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Counselor Toolbox podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Empathy helps you explore their reality through their eyes Detachment allows you to know clearly where you end and they begin so you can step in and […] ?? Empathy helps you explore their reality through their eyes Detachment allows you to know clearly where you end and they begin so you can step in and […]

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

In addition, the results point to the importance of developing interventions to increase trust, empathy, and communication between unaccompanied immigrant youth and their parents. blended families). Study Authors: Liza Barros-Lane, PhD, LMSW , assistant professor of social work, University of Houston-Downtown.

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The Child and Family Corp

JULY 9, 2025

Children showed empathy and understanding by considering the needs of animals (e.g., Parents remarked on their children’s psychological experiences of sustained attention, curiosity , and perspective taking. Outdoor adventures sparked children’s desire to learn, as evident in their questions about animals and ecosystems.

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Social Work Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Interventions, such as motivational interviewing, and techniques, like going with resistance and offering empathy, validation and reflection, are important. Always start where the client is, she suggests, and validate their feelings. The DSM-V notes that pain disorders relate to psychological factors.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Hopefully, learning about these myths and facts will help social workers show empathy to their clients with BPD and refer to effective treatment when necessary. The truth is that they are using these behaviors to relieve their painful emotions. Figuring out and changing the causes of behaviors works better than judging and blaming.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

To address this gap, the authors propose a training model for professional development aimed at increasing empathy and understanding among K–12 educators through experiential learning tools such as the Community Action Poverty Simulation.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Hopefully, learning about these myths and facts will help social workers show empathy to their clients with BPD and refer to effective treatment when necessary. The truth is that they are using these behaviors to relieve their painful emotions. Figuring out and changing the causes of behaviors works better than judging and blaming.

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Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I have a serious passion for work in this field, sincere empathy for those with serious brain disorders, and good research skills. I love to do research each day on mental illness disorders and issues so I am able to post educational articles or videos to raise awareness about mental illness.

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R.E.A.L. Social Workers

MAY 19, 2022

Community is fostered through a demonstration of empathy and collaboration. Daniel Golman who wrote Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ speaks of three types of empathy and described it as follows. Cognitive empathy is recognizing how another person feels. Listen closely to others with empathy. •

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Relias

JULY 2, 2025

This means fostering a culture where empathy, respect, and inclusivity are standard. This includes creating physically and psychologically safe spaces, promoting transparent communication, providing access to support resources, and empowering staff through shared decision-making.

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My Brains Not Broken

MAY 1, 2024

When our dialogue about mental health is rooted in empathy and understanding, it’s easier to see a path forward. By sharing the vast amount of resources offered, people can find what works for them when it comes to mental wellness. We are each on our own journey, and finding what works for each individual drives this point home.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Reading fiction in particular builds emotional literacy and empathy, research shows. Today, a growing body of research confirms that reading and writing can be therapeutic, even reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Disrupting Stigma: How Understanding, Empathy, and Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Families Affect by Substance Use and Mental Disorders. The CDC explains what substance use disorders are along with different treatment and recovery options and the importance of reducing stigma.

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The Child and Family Corp

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Parents’ own reactions and coping (remaining calm, modeling empathy, expressing distress) directly affect how their college-aged children respond, so parents should be mindful of themselves as role models. Parents need to adjust how they help based on careful assessment of their children’s needs and abilities.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I know what it means to struggle with your own empathy when dealing with a difficult client. I know what it feels like to try to help someone through a personal emergency that has turned a life, already precariously perched, into a raging inferno. I have heard the voice.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 6, 2024

Our right brains are attracted to mates who already possess the potential ability to have perfect empathy for our inner worlds. The perfect empathy that follows these discoveries is a powerful generator of healing and new levels of intimacy.

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American Board of Clinical Social Work

MAY 7, 2024

Our right brains are attracted to mates who already possess the potential ability to have perfect empathy for our inner worlds. The perfect empathy that follows these discoveries is a powerful generator of healing and new levels of intimacy.

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Michigan Social Work

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It is as an immigrant that Cross finds the necessary empathy for her work. Assistant Professor Fernanda Cross is featured on Deutsche Welle (DW) website. The article explores her journey to the U.S. and her research at U-M School of Social Work. “It

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Swhelper

JANUARY 3, 2023

A lover of using technology to help the underserved and voiceless, she’s formed communities and platforms to foster empathy and support for women […]. View Full Article - Tech and Movement Building Part II.

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KVC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It’s important for parents to show examples of treating others with dignity and respect, and to model empathy for others. Model kindness and inclusion: Young children are just learning how to have healthy relationships with others. By exposing your child to this early on, we can help end bullying in schools.

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Bipolar Bandit

JANUARY 17, 2024

One thing I’ve learned from being in the group is the lack of empathy and knowledge of doctors. If you struggle with tardive dyskenisia and want to find support and learn more about TD, I highly suggest you join the Facebook group Tardive Dyskenisia Bully Free Support Group There are a lot of very knowledgeable and supportive people.

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Relias

MAY 19, 2025

Experience management gives healthcare organizations the insight and tools to respond with empathy, improve in real time, and build lasting patient loyalty one experience at a time. The post Top 4 Service Recovery Best Practices appeared first on Relias.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This may be because they are motivated by empathy to pursue work in the field. The effects of the mental health crisis can be seen in the following statistics: Master’s level licensed social workers are twice as likely to have PTSD as the general population.

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Relias

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The best way to help your client at this stage is to accept their resistance and respond with empathy and active listening. The stages of this model , and how providers can help at each stage, include the following: Pre-contemplation In this stage, individuals are not yet considering a change in behavior.

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Relias

JANUARY 25, 2024

The process is grounded in empathy, active listening, and a non-confrontational approach, creating a safe space for individuals to explore and articulate their own reasons for change. Active listening : Empathy — a deep understanding and appreciation for the client’s perspective — is a central component of motivational interviewing.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At its core, emotional intelligence for kids determines how well they can emotionally relate to others, according to the article, which explores ways parents can instill EI in their children.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Empathy and Active Listening: Empathetic Attitude: Social workers approach their clients with genuine empathy, recognising the emotions and experiences that clients may be going through. Empathy and Active Listening 7. Essential social work skills include empathy, authenticity, resilience and respect. Client Assessment 2.

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