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- Title
Challenging Empathy.
- Authors
Rohr, Elisabeth
- Abstract
Social workers and psychologists working in post-conflict societies are quite often confronted with trauma in their daily working routine. Trauma might emerge during the exhumation of mass graves, in counselling victims of war, or within supervisory case work and has to be dealt with in this professional, but non-clinical setting. The article explores theoretically, and with the help of a case study, difficulties and possibilities of understanding complex trauma in supervision, focusing on how to transform empathy into emotion-based understanding, and thus opening up new perspectives for solving conflicts. It is stressed, however, that the understanding of trauma must be grounded in a sound knowledge of clinical trauma theory.
- Subjects
TERMINATION of war; WAR victims; SOCIAL worker attitudes; PSYCHOLOGISTS -- Attitudes; EMPATHY; MENTAL health
- Publication
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 4, p450
- ISSN
0091-1674
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1007/s10615-011-0339-0