TY - JOUR AU - Barish, Kenneth PY - 2023 TI - On the Role of Empathy in Child Development and Psychotherapy: What is Empathy and How Does it Help? JF - Medical Research Archives; Vol 11 No 4 (2023): APRIL ISSUE, Issue 4, VOl.11 DO - 10.18103/mra.v11i4.3710 KW - N2 - In this article, I will present a contemporary understanding of the nature of empathy and the importance of empathy in successful psychotherapy with children. This perspective highlights the intrinsic relationship of empathy and affect. I will consider how the child therapist’s empathy is expressed and offer a specific hypothesis on the therapeutic efficacy of empathic understanding in clinical work with children.  Finally, I will discuss how the experience of empathic understanding is beneficial in the emotional life of the child and in all human relationships, throughout life. UR - https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3710