Thursday, April 02, 2009

Great...

day in the morning! Get to work today and one of my first patients is one of those child molesters I counseled last week. Yep, that's my job. I was working with him on forgiving himself. That.was.hard. (borrowing cjh's style)

I have to provide unconditional positive regard. Remember Rogers? I can't pick and choose which inmates I want to help. So that includes a lot of people that I would never, ever, ever, want to help if it were not my job.

Does helping a child rapist forgive himself lead to him raping more or less when he is finally released?

What about the killer who killed his wife and father-in-law in a sudden fight. Ugly death. He regrets killing the guy because he would like to be able to talk to him. No remorse at all over the wife. Okey-dokey.

A colleague and I had a brief discussion about this question today: Can empathy be taught to adults?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

another 2 great posts, these, with some tough questions. wow.

cph

StaceyG said...

I don't think empathy can be taught to sociopaths, and that if you haven't developed empathy or compassion by the time you're a teen then maybe you are a sociopath?

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