"Empathy Study" ed. by Makiko Kondo, Bala Nikku

This book contains chapters that cover transpersonal caring, learning to be empathic in social school, autism and psychopathy, emotional labor, and critical thinking in social work training from a variety of different perspectives.

Empathy, as it relates to behavioral counseling, is the ability of the counselor to get into the client’s phenomenological world and experience it as if it is one’s own while putting aside one’s own feelings and accepting the client’s thoughts and feelings unconditionally. Empathy is indispensable not only for forming good relationships but also for healing hurt persons. Especially now, empathy is the essence of care.


Contents
1.Critical Thinking in Social Work Training
2.The Moment of Establishing Transpersonal Caring in a Grieving Adolescent Daughter beside Her Mother’s Deathbed and Hansen’s Disease Survivors Sharing Their Life Review
3.Emotional Labor in the Airlines: Relation between Psychological Contract Violation, Job Satisfaction, and Empathy
4.Prevention of Deviant Pathways and Rehabilitation from Criminal Activities: Social School by “O Companheiro” Providing an Alternative to the Prison System
5.Empathy: Autism and Psychopathy