In a Graduation Thesis, I researched how the study of social work contributes to the ability to empathize with another. With the research, I wanted to find out how students themselves perceive the empathy and how do they see the role of empathy in social work education, and what is the contribution of studies to the empathy of social work students. The results of the qualitative research on a non-random casual sample, in which I included twenty-nine female students, showed that students perceive empathy for another primarily as an understanding of a person's feelings and experiences. They consider that the capability of to empathize with the other is of great importance in general and even higher in social work, both in the process of education for social work and in the practice of the social work profession itself. The results showed that there are specific ways of learning of empathy during studies, which leads to the realization that the faculty contributes to the empathy of students. In the development of empathy, students also notice the difference in their empathy after four years of study. Even though students expressed satisfaction with the amount of how much empathy is involved in the educational process, results also showed dissatisfaction with the insufficient and indirect placement of empathy in the learning curriculum. These led to suggest for the future that would allow for more intensive learning and the development of empathy.
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