Empathy and Communication in Recovery

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Introduction – what is Rapport?

Rapport is the way to achieve someone belief to build a positive relationship. It means the way of building network that you join with people whenever you coordinate/meet with them. The connection among the two people when from, they share each other values and respect as well as culture also (Fritscher, 2019). Mutual attentiveness- when both build the rapport, then they shows interest in each other what they are saying or doing (Tickle-Degnen).Positivity- both become friendly and shares their emotion as well as issue in life as they have trust in each other (Tickle-Degnen).

Working skills require by the worker to build a good rapport with family-

Advance Empathy-

What is it?

Advance empathy is the form of empathy; the advance empathy is one step ahead of basic empathy, emotional as well as somatic empathy (Chowdhry, Intermedcounselling, 2015).

The difference between empathy and advance empathy is- empathy is the mutual understanding of the feeling as well as emotion of the client suffering from mental health and addiction issue where as advance empathy when the mental health practitioner has the ability to guess the clients feeling more accurately and able to know what are the issues behind the client action and to obtain that correctly one can make it out by watching the client facial expression as well as the body language (Chowdhry, Intermedcounselling, 2015).

Explanation of advance empathy- –

According to the ‘James Pesch’ individuals more likely to build a good relationship with that individual who is more likely to them for example in choice, likes etc., excluding appearance this way of building rapport is known as Mirror matching (Pesch, 2018). This method is most likely used by the mental health professionals to build a good rapport with the clients. James also states in his explanation that while using this technique individual has to be more concern about the client’s body language, what the expressions are shown by the client during communication as well as professionals needs to focus on tone and volume of individual. If the mental health workers succeed while applying this technique then he can build a good rapport (Pesch, 2018).

Empathy means that the understanding of the individual problems by getting in their own thoughts. A famous phrase helps to explain deeper “putting your feet in someone else shoes” meaning trying to feel the pain they are feeling (McKinney, 2015). While advance empathy means identifying the problems by other client’s thought even those thought is not known to the client. Advance empathy helps to build a good rapport with the family also because the mental health professional will highlight the issues of the client having which is unknown to them and even to the client (McKinney, 2015).