How Is Mutual Empathy Defined

question 9

Multiple Choice

How is mutual empathy defined?

• A) As clients seeing-experiencing-knowing their emotional effect on their therapists within a safe environment
• B) As clients being able to see their therapists experiencing empathic resonance
• C) As a too-close emotional symbiosis
• D) All of the above are true
• E) Only A and B are true

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Definitions:

Speech

The expression of thoughts and feelings through spoken language, using vocal cords to produce sounds.

Prelinguistic Vocalization

Sounds and noises produced by infants before they acquire language, used for experimentation with language sounds and communication.

Assimilation

The cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding.

Schemes

Cognitive structures or patterns of action and thought used to deal with experiences, fundamental to understanding and interacting with the world.