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Part 1 Empathy and compassion are significant for social workers, particularly when interacting with their clients. It is, therefore, interesting to learn that social workers can use empathy in a type of way that could pose a risk to their personal and professional well-being of social workers. According to Nilsson (2014), studies have hypothesized that over-use or over feeling of empathy can lead to compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue describes the phenomenon of social workers, in this context, experiencing PTSD symptoms after working with traumatized people. When working with traumatized people, social workers run a significant risk of feeling too empathetic to them, which leads to compassion fatigue. Taylor (2022) posits that social workers who use emotionally focused therapy (EFT), which is centered around empathy-based interventions, are likely to experience the pain clients feel, especially when counseling couples battling infidelity. EFT can result in social workers developing empathy-based strain adversely affecting them professionally and personally, meaning they can harm clients. Therefore, when social workers feel too much empathy for their clients, they are likely to be adversely affected in their professional and personal lives. References Nilsson, P. (2014). Are empathy and compassion bad for the professional social worker? Advances in Social Work , 15 (2), 294-305. Taylor, J. (2022). Empathy-Based Strain Among Social Workers Working With Couples Experiencing Infidelity (Doctoral dissertation, Walden University). Part 2- 14-1

Ways in which one can link micro and macro practice with clients and client groups include locality development, social planning, social action, and capacity building (Rooney et al. 2017). Locality development involves building relationships in the community and encouraging broad participation since it improves community capacity and integration. It encourages the community to identify its problems and actively look for solutions. Social planning can be described as a strategy that relies on technical assistance and consultants to solve problems (Rooney et al. 2017). Capacity building is centered around increasing a community’s ability to get autonomy to make its decisions and implement its actions. The main assumption here government intervention is primarily for solution-seeking only (Rooney et al. 2017). Social action involves advocacy for the community as decision-makers and institutions seek solutions for unfairness in unequal resource distribution and other issues the community has identified. Rooney, G. D., Rooney, R. H., Hepworth, D. H., & Strom-Gottfried, K. (2017). Direct social work practice: Theory and skills . Cengage Learning.

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