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Originally Posted by stopdog
i would interpret positive feedback differently from empathising with a therapist. Positive feedback, for me, would be telling the therapist what was working between us or what they were doing that I found useful. That is not my understanding of empathy. For the record, mine would be even more shocked if I said something positive about the therapy Or her input.
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How about 'same church, different pew'?
In both instances, the focus is off of you and on them. With + feedback you are focusing on their skills and with empathy, the person as a whole.
Of course it's a boundary issue which I tend ignore routinely. It's an occupational hazard-once a social worker, always a social worker. My job was to break down barriers-which is a heatlthy way to build trust in a relationship in order to further it in the real world. I keep having to remind myself the rules change in therapeutic relationships...
