Empathic Counseling

Jeanne M. Slattery, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Clarion University. She is passionate about teaching and helping students learn to become empathic and respectful clinicians. She has also written Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research into Clinical Practice and Counseling Diverse Clients: Bringing Context into Therapy. She is a licensed psychologist with a small private practice and especially works with adults and children with a history of trauma, and mood and anxiety disorders. She lives in Clarion, Pennsylvania. Visit https://jeannemslattery.wordpress.com.   Crystal L. Park, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her research focuses on multiple aspects of coping with stressful events, including the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, yoga, and the making of meaning in the context of traumatic events and life-threatening illnesses, particularly with cancer survivors, congestive heart failure patients, and military veterans. At UConn, she maintains an active research lab and teaches health psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She lives in the lovely village of Mystic, Connecticut. Visit https://spiritualitymeaningandhealth.uconn.edu.      

Preface to the Second Edition

Part I. Introduction to Empathy and the Mental Health Professional
Chapter 1. What Is Empathy, and Why Does It Matter?

Part II. Building a Framework for Understanding People
Chapter 2. Understanding Meaning Systems
Chapter 3. Understanding Culture, Identity, and Oppression

Part III. Developing Empathic Assessments
Chapter 4. Building the Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 5. Communicating Empathy Verbally
Chapter 6. Assessing People in Context
Chapter 7. Thinking Critically to Ensure Accurate Assessments

Part IV. Facilitating Positive Change
Chapter 8. Developing Goals and a Treatment Plan
Chapter 9. Providing Empathic Interventions
Chapter 10. Ending Treatment

Part V. Professional Issues
Chapter 11. Ethics
Chapter 12. Writing Empathic Clinical Reports
Chapter 13. Self-Care

References

Glossary

Index

About the Authors