Countertransference Tina Huley Psychology: Clinical Mental Health Counseling Professor: Dr. Yvonne Patterson Chicago State University Countertransference Countertransference is the therapist’s unconscious emotional responses when a client discusses a therapist’s unresolved issue. The counselor’s thoughts and feelings in reaction to the client can be from the client themselves or events in the counselor’s own life. Counselors should monitor their feelings while
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INTRODUCTION Psychodynamic counselling and therapy involves a number of important elements‚ which perhaps is what makes the psychodynamic approach more and more interesting to those who go on developing in their work. (E.g. Erik Erikson ’s work on life stages and the object relation theory) While in no sense wishing to undervalue the importance of basic listening and responding skills‚ nor the centrality of a positive therapeutic relationship‚ the ongoing experience of working with people leads
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it may be beneficial to start with a psychodynamic approach ‚ where a counsellor use gentle word association ‚ and discussing set topics which might then enable the client to talk .Once the client has learnt to disclose and trust then it may be beneficial to start using a different approach like client centred or CBT . If you get a client who wants to talk and talk‚ the Person centred counselling would be best to start
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resembles a childhood friend. In The Psychology of the Transference‚ Carl Jung states that within the transference dyad both participants typically experience a variety of opposites‚ that in love and in psychological growth‚ the key to success is the ability to endure the tension of the opposites without abandoning the process‚ and that this tension allows one to grow and to transform.[4] Only in a personally or socially harmful context can transference be described as a pathological issue. A modern‚ social-cognitive
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perception of his role as husband and father is that “it’s my job to be the breadwinner and look after my family and its Maeve’s job to look after the kids.” My assumption would be that this response reflects his early childhood experience. The Psychodynamic Approach recognises that many of our actions and responses reflect the effects of our earliest experiences‚ which affect our relationships and our perception of the present. Essentially we often‚ unconsciously‚ recreate patterns from the past
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Written Report Written Report Title: Types of Counseling Approaches School Year /Semester: 1st Semester/ 2011-2012 Reporter: John Carlo J. Sto. Domingo School/Department: SSTED/1-Biyo Types of Counseling Approaches A counselor’s assistance to an individual depends on the type of counseling he uses. The five types of counseling approaches are: Directive or Clinical Counseling‚ Non-directive Counseling (Client-Centered)‚ Group and Environmental Counseling‚ Group Counseling and Developmental Counseling
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Behavioural This is one of the very early approaches to understanding human behaviour; this was developed internally by Thorndike‚ Watson and Pavlov in the 19th century (Nicolson‚ Bayne 1990). Behaviourists are concerned with the questions relating to the conditions and events surrounding the behaviour‚ looking at the gaps in learnt behaviour‚ environment aspects‚ watching how they react. (Nicolson‚ Bayne 1990) This theory can be applied to John in the case study; he displays aggressive behaviour
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The humanistic movement was established as a way to expand and improve upon the two other schools of thought; behaviourism and psychoanalysis‚ which had‚ up until the first half of the 20th century dominated psychology. An American theorist called Abraham Maslow began to research creativity in humans through art and science. He first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation”. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is most often displayed as a pyramid. The
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Laurence Spurling illustrates in great detail principles and elements that encompass psychodynamic counselling. The relationship between therapist and client is paramount to the counselling process and is a defining feature in psychodynamic theory. The therapeutic dialogue between client and counsellor is vital for this therapeutic process. Through adopting an attitude of mutuality the counsellor aims at creating sanctuary and meaning for the client so they will gain an experience of containment
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Transference and Countertransference by Lisa Marie Hilz Introduction Transference and countertransference are both normal phenomena that may arise during the course of the therapeutic relationship. Understanding these phenomena in nursing is important because the primary focus of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship (Imura‚ 1991). This discussion will describe how these phenomena occur‚ and how they may manifest in the nurse-patient relationship. Furthermore‚ this discussion will highlight
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