...morals are challenged in ways he cant quiet understand. With Christopher’s Autism, it puts him in a vulnerable state, which he soon gains courage to overcome. Many Questions are asked about the abilities of Autistic people, and to what capacity can the make right and wrong decisions. Autistic people are challenged every second of everyday by their own minds. According to the organization “Autism Speaks”, autism is a group of complex disorders of brain development; these disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. When an Autistic persons mind is running a mile a minute, when is there time to sort out morality? In Christopher Boone’s case, he doesn’t know how to respond, for example, when Christopher discovers Wellington and gets questioned about the dog, Christopher becomes very troubled and vulnerable. Once the police officer tries to touch Christopher he lashes out. Christopher’s response shows that he could not find the right response to show emotion towards. To make it more understandable, Philosopher Jeannette Kennett, writes in her essay “Autism, Empathy, and Moral Agency”, on whether or not people with autism can make moral decisions. Kennett explains why Autistic people can possibly gain moral agency with or without...
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...The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird both have many similarities in how prejudice and empathy were displayed throughout the story. Both of the stories were set in the time of segregation in the Southern United States. It also shows the similarity of African-Americans as caretakers or housekeepers – Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird and Aibileen is only one of the examples in The Help. The settings were also similar, a part of a town was where whites lived and part of a town was where African-Americans lived, but there was a twenty-year difference of when the books took place. Prejudice was mainly shown throughout the storied by the way whites treated the African-Americans. In The Help, there were multiple examples of prejudice: African-Americans were not allowed to us the same bathroom as whites and how African-Americans could not use the same plates as whites. The acts of prejudice often stemmed from the fact that whites believed that African-Americans contained diseases, a statement that was supported by no facts. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the main example of prejudice was when Tom Robinson was convicted of raping a white girl when...
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...Popular culture shows that heroes, both real and fictional, have always been those who go out of their way to save lives and are able to sympathize with others. Odysseus, from the epic poem, The Odyssey, by Homer, is a man who obtains these hero-like qualities. Unfortunately, he has been away from home for ten years due to the many obstacles he encountered on his journey back to his home island, Ithaca. In this story, he shows hero-like traits to many people. He defeated the cyclops, Polyphemus, from trapping him and his men, slept with the enchantress Circe, he is able to pass the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis who blocked his and his men's path home, encountered walking corpses in the Land of the Dead to meet Tiresias, and cried for his dog,...
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...man is sympathy, and that people who are sympathetic tend to have more offspring. Sympathy increases the rate of survival of offspring because it causes people to care for their offspring; sympathy allows humans to care for each other, and also allows people to work together in order to survive, thus proving that sympathy brings society together. Moreover, sympathy is an instinct that is caused by certain stimuli, which includes: empathy and compassion. Naturally, humans are morally good because they are born with the ability to feel both empathy and compassion. In other words, people are born to show sympathy, it is not something achieved. Humans are born with a brain…the brain allows...
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...many people throughout the world, it means when a person has the ability to perceive, control and evaluate their own emotions as well as the emotions of others. Many researchers suggest that emotional intelligence is something that can be learned and strengthened with practice, while others believe it is an inborn characteristic. A person that has the ability to understand their emotions, and of others is able to benefit on some situations verses people that do not use their emotional intelligence. The characteristic of a person with emotional intelligence is self- aware, people that are self- aware can take an honest look at themselves; and they do not let their emotions rule over them. Self- regulation are characteristics that prevents the person from making impulsive decisions, a person who is self- regulate does not become too angry or jealous; this can benefit a person at home or in a professional setting, because a person will think before they act instead of being careless. Empathy is an important aspect of emotional intelligence, when a person has and show empathy are great in managing relationships which can benefit a person either at home or in a professional setting. A great benefit of empathy is people with emotional intelligence avoid stereotyping and judging others, they live in an honest way; this can help prevent problems in any kind of relationship; because stereotyping others can be a negative thing. An important characteristic that is observed from people with...
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...trait Rodger shows is that he lacks empathy for others through his powerful sadistic streak. In the article, “Narcissism and Empathy in Young Offenders and Non-offenders”, author Erica G. Hepper explains that, “Empathy is defined as both the cognitive ability to understand others’ perspectives and the affective tendency to respond to others by sharing their emotions or feeling compassion” (qtd. in Davis). Rodger lacks empathy because he’s unable to identify other people’s feeling and forgive those who have hurt him. He just enjoys hurting people, and wants them so suffer more. One time at a bus station, he smiles at two girls, but these girls ignore him so he splashes his drinks on them. After what he has done, he recalls...
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...Empathy is not the same as sympathy. Empathy is a way to experience an emotionally or painful situation together, helping the client to feel less alone and understood. Sympathy is a feeling sorry for a person or client’s situation. Empathy can help a person move beyond feelings of negativity and hopelessness about a situation so that they can start to focus on moving through the situation. Even though empathy can lead to too much self-disclosure, it is crucial for nurses to apply empathy towards fearful cancer patients because a better therapeutic relationship is created and the patients feel more at ease. Literature Review Arnold and Boggs define empathy as the ability to be sensitive to and communicate understanding of the client’s feelings (2011). Empathy is to understand what it is like to “walk in someone else’s shoes” or to know what it is like to understand how that person feels by going through a similar experience (Kirk, 2007). Brunero, Lamont and Coates states that empathy is the ability to understand the meaning and feelings of a person and communicate those feelings back to that person (2010). Empathy is a relationship that allows open and honest discussion about one’s feelings (Haraldsdottir, 2007). A nurse is able to show empathy by a number of ways. You can display empathy by explaining a medical procedure or test in non-medical terms so the client can understand and feel in control of...
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...Rogers famous interview with Gloria, encountering the basic principles of the client centered approach. Abstract This paper is a qualitative analysis of the famous Carl Rogers interview with Gloria filmed in 1964 in the United States of America. The basic concepts of the client centered theory and therapy will also be encountered in addition to an evaluation of the necessity and importance of the core conditions in the counseling process. Introduction Person centered theory is regarded as one of the most influential theories of counseling and therapy since its development in the 1940s. With the development of the person centered theory its originator Carl Rogers revolutionized the field of psychotherapy. He believed that people are capable of solving their own problems when the right conditions...
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...is now known as client- centered counselling. Client-centered counselling involves three key concepts: empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive regard. Each play an important role in connecting with the client to help them achieve empowerment to resolve their issues. When all three of these key concepts are used, Rogers (Shebib, 2014) suggests, counselling has the best possible chance of success. This paper will define each concept, discuss the importance of each concept to the counselling relationship, and give a personal reflect view on how the three concepts relate to this writer's personal life experiences. This writer will begin with the definition of empathy. Discussion Description This writer's view of empathy, is having the ability to not judge, and to put yourself in someone else's shoes and to see experiences from their eyes and not your own. This writer found support in both the Oxford dictionary (2002) and Carl Rogers (Shebib, 2014, p. 47). They define empathy as "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another", and "being able to see the world through the eyes of the client", respectively. When a counsellor is unable to understand a client's concern, and lacks the ability to see through the eyes of the client, the counselling is unsuccessful. Client-centered counselling also involves genuineness. This writer believes it to be the ability to be authentic, real and truthful. As stated by Carl Rogers, (Shebib, 2014, p. 47) "genuineness (congruence)...
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...client, the counsellor needs certain communication skills in order to facilitate change. The counsellor needs the following basic communication skills to do effective counselling: 1. Attending Attending refers to the ways in which counsellors can be “with” their clients, both physically and psychologically. Effective attending tells clients that you are with them and that they can share their world with you. Effective attending also puts you in a position to listen carefully to what your clients are saying. The acronym SOLER can be used to help you to show your inner attitudes and values of respect and genuineness towards a client (Egan.) S: Squarely face your client. Adopt a bodily posture that indicates involvement with your client. (A more angled position may be preferable for some clients - as long as you pay attention to the client.) A desk between you and your client may, for instance, create a psychological barrier between you. O: Open posture. Ask yourself to what degree your posture communicates openness and availability to the client. Crossed legs and crossed arms may be interpreted as diminished involvement with the client or even unavailability or remoteness, while an open posture can be a sign that you are open to the client and to what he or she has to say. L: Lean toward the client (when appropriate) to show your involvement and interest. To lean back from your client may convey the opposite message. E: Eye contact with a client conveys the message that you...
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...Empathy. It’s what makes us human. What separates us from all other organisms is the ability to relate to other people, and show compassion to people that we have no previous relationship with. Empathy is what we use to answer questions, talk to people, and to comprehend humanity. But what happens when we lose this ability? What happens when we fail to understand that other humans are humans too? Violence, hate, prejudice; these too are what makes us human. Humans constantly alternate between inclusive empathy and being scared of those that are different from us. Prejudice and empathy are two sides of the same coin, and try as we may, we can’t choose to ignore one and completely block out the other. We’ll always, on some level, be able to...
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...could use their powers for the general good of the city and the people. This is particularly relevant to the character of Brutus during the play. During the scenes of William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, characters are able to rise to power through their particular strengths. These characters, Cassius, Brutus, and Antony all have different characteristics that helped them gain power within the city of Rome. However, these people also showed that they were human by having weaknesses that led to their down fall. Within a leader, it is important to look at their trustworthiness, honorability, reputation, and their use of empathy. These three characters all displayed differences within these traits which made them unique in their own ways. Within the scenes of Julius Caesar, Cassius, the leader of the conspiracy against Caesar, displays many strengths that guide him to the rise to power, and weaknesses which direct him to his eventual fall. Cassius believes that the people of Rome are responsible for the government of Rome. They have allowed a man to gain excessive power; therefore, they have the responsibility to stop him, and with a man of Caesar's well-known ambition, that can only mean assassination. Clearly, the most significant characteristic of Cassius is his ability to perceive the true motives of men; in other words, the ability to read or see through other people, which is called empathy. Caesar...
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...I. INTRODUCTION Constructive deviance is becoming increasingly important in businesses today. What some people may not know is that it can bring about positive changes. Unlike much of the literature on workplace deviance which focuses on dysfunctional behavior such as antisocial behavior and workplace aggression, constructive deviants are employees who break the rules and norms but intend to benefit the organization. These individuals can play a key role in creating an organizational change and serve as future change agents. Given the increasing discussion on health care reforms, this paper explores the factors that relate to constructive deviance among physicians. Finally, practical implications and future research directions are discussed. II. Introduction Workplace deviance has generally been used to describe the following behaviors: antisocial behavior (Giacalone & Greenberg, 1997), workplace aggression (O’Leary-Kelly, Griffin & Glew, 1996), organizational retaliation (Skarlicki & Folger, 1997), and employee deviance (Robinson & Bennett, 1995). Although previous research has increased our understanding of the harmful effects of deviance within organizations, little research has examined the positive aspects of deviance. Constructive workplace deviance encompasses behaviors that violate significant organizational norms in order to contribute to the well-being of the organization (Galperin, 2003). Constructive deviance is becoming increasingly...
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...abuse falls into six categories, some that are more self-evident such as physical abuse that leaves marks on the outside of the body and others, such as emotional, which leaves no mark save the one on the child’s heart and mind. The various forms of maltreatment for 2005 fall into the following categories: Neglect 62.8% Physical Abuse 16.6% Sexual Abuse 9.3% Emotional/psychological 7.1% Medical Neglect 2.0% Other 14.3% The listed percentages equal over 100% as children are not always the victim of just one category; regrettably, children may be the victim of both physical and emotional abuse. Studies into the cycle of abuse has shown that a person abused as a child becoming abusive as an adult, reveals “about one-third of people who are abused in childhood will become abusers themselves” ((NYTimes, 1989, pg. 1). Research has also revealed that abused children are more likely to have issues as an adult with depression and alcoholism, along with sexual maladjustment, and mental illness of multiple personality (NYTimes, 1989). The cycle of abuse needs to stop for the child, the parent, and society’s future. The children of today are the future of tomorrow and need to be able to grow both emotionally and...
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...Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire on their fellow classmates and teacher. These two students cut the lives short of thirteen students and one teacher. They then turned their guns onto themselves leaving the nation with no answers as to why? They did leave videotape. This videotape contained Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planning their attack on Columbine High School. This piece of evidence showed two students that were not part of the "in crowd". They were outsiders, losers, as some would consider them. They were taunted, humiliated, and disrespected by their classmates. But how can two intelligent students do something as deadly as they did. Was it because they had bad parents? Not at all, they even went out of their way to save their parents the blame by repeatedly saying that it was not their fault that they were about to do what they did. So what was the cause of all this tragedy and how can it be stopped so it can never happen again in our middle schools and high schools? Elliot Aronson a social psychologist wrote a book called Nobody Left to Hate, Teaching Compassion After Columbine. This book represents his ideas on how to use certain strategies to have a better school environment that teaches compassion, tolerance while putting education in a winning situation. Aronson discusses the Columbine High School in depth, talking about the short cut solutions or pump-handle intervention as he calls it that schools and legislation passed soon after the Columbine...
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