Description

A successful journal entry will:

-Be three to five pages in length. Write more rather than less. Dig into the content and engage in deep thinking.

-Answer all the sub-questions and/or activities included within the prompt question.

-Utilize course content – concepts and theories. Use bold type for the terms. Define the term in your own words to demonstrate your understanding of the meaning. This definition should be placed within ( ). Focus on using a minimum of five to ten terms per entry.

-Provide specific examples of your own communication. Develop these examples with sufficient detail to make them vivid and concrete.

-Include the specific question/activity on the top of each entry.

-If an activity (in the textbook) is to be completed, include all your answers for that activity in your journal.

-If questions are included with an activity, be sure to write a thoughtful and developed reflection from the question prompts.

Ch#9 Observe and Analyze p.258. Utilize course content to describe and assess how well you were able to empathize: validating emotions, encouraging reappraisals, cognitive-emotional theory of esteem support messages… What have you learned in this course that you will try to use in future situations when you need to empathize with another person?

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/smarterliving/be-a-better-listener (Links to an external site.)

https://medium.com/@lauraclick/31-empathetic-statements-for-when-you-dont-know-what-to-say-edd50822c96a (Links to an external site.)

In addition, please do a Google search and read some articles and reference them in your reflection. Just type in key words such as: “effective listening”, “how to demonstrate empathy”, “being a good conversationalist” and expand your learning beyond the textbook and Chapter Outlines.

Optional Prompt (for students without a textbook or who self select):

Using any of the content from any of the chapters of the text, as well as the content in the above article describe a recent time when you empathized with another person. Provide a detailed description of the context and communication. What type/types of empathy did you engage in? What leads you to identify that you were engaging in this type/types of empathy? What did your conversational partner do and say? What did you do and say? Provide vivid and concrete details of the communication you used to demonstrate empathy? What was the outcome? If you could redo this interaction in order to be a more competent communicator, what (if anything) would you do differently? What skills do you want to work on to become a more competent communicator?

In addition, please do a Google search and read some articles and reference them in your reflection. Just type in key words such as: “effective listening”, “how to demonstrate empathy”, “being a good conversationalist” and expand your learning beyond the textbook and Chapter Outlines.