Preparatory empathy is always based on a social worker’s complete information of a
client’s feeling
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: F
PG: 259–260
Feedback: As you engage in preparatory empathy in advance of a meeting or encounter,
recognize that your preliminary understanding may be considerably off target. By
definition, preparatory empathy is always based on incomplete information. Therefore,
our impressions are always tentative, always preliminary, and always subject to
immediate change based on others' actual communications.
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