My students get tired of hearing me saying that lawyering is all about empathy.
(See, at least I understand my students’ feelings!) A lawyer cannot practice effectively without understanding their clients’ situations from their clients’ points of view, recognizing their clients’ emotions to the extent they play a role in their legal decision making, identifying what having a lawyer and utilizing the legal system means to them, and knowing what their clients’ visions of a successful outcome is.
So what are parents to do? The first step is to cultivate what Above the Fray calls digital empathy.Digital empathy is the ability to consider what teens’ lives are like now with pervasive technology, where every good and bad day has the potentia…
This interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars, filmmakers, mental health practitioners and consumers to explore questions about representations of mental illness in film and television across two days of papers, screenings and workshops. The sympos…
At the heart of reading well is empathy: the ability and willingness to enter into the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of another person. Reading is not simply passive comprehension of information, but is an active conversation with anot…
Tim Desmond offers practical strategies from his new book on integrating the science of self-compassion into clinical treatment.What is self-compassion? It is intimately tied to the practice ofmindfulness—a special way of paying attention to…
