Poster 13. Recognition that empathy is a vital competence for counseling success resulted in a large body of literature defining the constructs of empathy and honing the measurement of empathy. However, minimal articles in the counseling literature discussed one of the most widely used self-report measures of empathy, Davis’ Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). This presentation aims to introduce the concept of empathic personal distress in Davis’ empathy model and discuss its implementation in empathy measurement and research.
