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Title: EMPATHY: Building Nurturing Families for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect


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EMPATHY Building Nurturing Families for the
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
  • Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D.

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  • Empathy comes from the Greek word empatheia
    which means "feeling into.

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  • Empathy prevents child abuse and
    neglect through positive nurturing

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  • Nurturing comes from the word nutritura which
    means to promote, nurse and nourish life.

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  • The energy of nurturing is non-discriminatory.
    Both positive and negative nurturing exist.

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  • Negative nurturing is called abuse and neglect

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  • Abuse comes from the Latin word abusus which
    means to mistreat cruel and harsh treatment.

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  • Neglect comes from the Latin word neglegere. Neg
    means not and legere means pick up.

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  • Positive nurturing is called
  • Empathy

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  • Empathy is the fundamental
  • Parenting
  • characteristic

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  • An empathic parenting response is an attempt to
    put ourselves in a childs place in order to
    perceive the subjective experience of the child.

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  • Nature
  • VS
  • Nurture

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  • positive and negative nurture

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  • Nature of
  • the Human Being?

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  • Human beings are born biologically predisposed to
    form and sustain long-term positive nurturing
    relationships.

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  • Positive and Negative Nurture

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There are approximately 157,776 hours of life in
the first 18 years of life
  • Positive Negative Dysfunctional Hours
  • 20 80
    126,221
  • 30 70
    110,443
  • 50 50
    78,888
  • 70 30
    47,333
  • 80 20
    31,555
  • 90 10
    15,778
  • 95 5
    7,889
  • 99 1
    1,578
  • 100 0
    0

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Principles of Nurturing Parenting
  • Positive and negative life events carry both
    cognitive and affective cellular memories.
  • Over time, repeated events create neural
    pathways.

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  • The brain normalizes repeated experiences.

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  • Neurological networks and pathways are created in
    childhood that influence our life.

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Philosophy of Nurturing Parenting
  • Events develop personality characteristics.
  • Personality characteristics lead to personality
    traits.
  • Personality traits lead to full blown
    personalities.

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  • Much of human behavior is driven by two
    neurological responses

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  • COGNITIVE
  • thoughts and memories
  • (pre-frontal lobes)

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  • AFFECTIVE
  • our feelings
  • (limbic system)

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  • Empathic responses contain both cognitive and
    affective dimensions

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  • a cognitive attempt to understand anothers
    feelings and perspective

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  • the affective capacity to share in anothers
    feelings.

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  • There are four critical attributes of empathy

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  • 1. Awareness of the state of another.

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  • 2. Understanding of this condition.

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  • 3. Personal Identification with the situation.

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  • 4. Appropriate affective and cognitive response.

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  • American psychologist E. B. Titchner first used
    the word in the 1920s.

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  • Motor mimicry observed in one-year olds who
    imitated the distress of another child.

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  • A sort of imitation of the distress of another
    which then evokes the same feelings in oneself.

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  • Natural progression of empathy

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  • At one, a child feels distress when another child
    falls or cries.

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  • After one, infants become more aware that they
    are distinct from others and try to soothe
    another crying child.

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  • Around two
  • Someone elses feelings differ from their own
  • Become sensitive to cues revealing what another
    child feels.

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  • Late childhood, children can understand distress
    beyond the immediate situation.

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  • Positive attributes of empathy

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  • Parental empathy forms a positive bond at birth
    between baby and parents (bonding)

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Benefits of Bonding
  • Healthy brain development
  • Proper socialization
  • Trust and belonging
  • Safety and security
  • Growth and development

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  • which continues as the child grows older
    (attachment).

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  • Attachment is a reciprocal relationship between
    parent and child.

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  • Attunement is the process of being present and
    responsive to the childs needs.

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  • Empathic parents are
  • Attuned to the subtle and overt signals of
    childrens needs or wants.
  • Respond in empathic ways that maintain that
    childs dignity.
  • Consider the child an equal in respect to the
    feelings

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  • Interesting Facts
  • Gender differences in empathy

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  • Males have action oriented empathy
  • ability to observe others and situations and
    problem solve.

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  • Females have emotional oriented empathy
  • being aware of the feelings of another.

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  • Bavolek found females express significantly
    (Pgt.001) more empathic parenting beliefs than
    males on the AAPI-2.

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  • Empathy builds on self-awareness recognizing
    and accepting our own feelings, meetings our
    needs.

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  • Awareness leads to Insight
  • Insight leads to choices
  • Choices lead to changes
  • Changes lead to liberation.
  • James Hollis The
    Middle Passage

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Child rearing practices that positively correlate
with empathy
  • Responsive, nurturing (non-punitive,
    non-authoritarian) parenting behaviors.
  • Using real life situations in understanding
    behavior.
  • Encouraging children to discuss their feelings
    and thoughts with parents.

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Child rearing practices that negatively
correlated with empathy
  • Threats and physical punishment to behave
    properly.
  • Rejection and withdrawal in response to
    childrens needs.
  • Home situations in which childrens mothers are
    abused by their fathers.
  • Extrinsic rewards used as bribes aimed at
    eliciting good behavior from children.

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Negative Correlations..
  • Emotional detachment of parents, primarily the
    mother.
  • Needy parents using children as objects for their
    gratification.
  • Association and justification of violence as an
    expression of love and caring.

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Part 2 Building Empathy
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Part 2 Ways to Build Empathy
  • 1. Identify your Family Morals
  • 2. Morals become Family Values
  • 3. Establish a set of Family Rules
  • 4. Teach children to care for plants, animals,
    and their belongings
  • 5. Empathize the value of Cooperation
  • 6. Build Quality Time In

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Ways to Build Empathy
  • 7. Practice massage daily as a night time routine
  • 8. Catch children behaving and use Praise for
    Doing
  • 9. Send unconditional love messages and use
    Praise for Being
  • 10. Have fun and laugh a lot

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Ways to Build Empathy
  • 11.Develop the childs sense of spirituality
  • 12.Volunteer to help others including animals and
    the environment
  • 13.Teach appropriate ways to express feelings
  • 14. Treat your children with dignity
  • 15. Tell Power Stories

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Ways to Build Empathy
  • 16. Get your needs met
  • 17. Help children get their needs met
  • 18. Take time away from doing parenting
  • 19. Have a family meal daily
  • 20. Pointing out the positive impact of acting
    kind and caring.

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Ways to Build Empathy
  • 21.Parents modeling empathic and caring
    behaviors.
  • 22. Brainstorming with children suggestions for
    making amends.
  • 23. Make parenting one of the most enjoyable
    experiences you and your family will ever have.
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