Countertransference

Transference is a well-known word whether you are in the helping profession or not. Many people transfer past feelings, emotions, actions onto others without even realizing it. The lesser known word is countertransference in which the helper is placing his or her feelings onto their client. Each instance is very important during the helping process and can overall make or break the therapeutic relationship. The technical definition of transference is “the process whereby clients project onto their

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PP) rooted from traditional psychoanalysis theories. PP operates with the basic assumption that focuses on unconscious processes that recognise how a person’s behaviour and feelings in the present are rooted from childhood experience in the past. The objective of PP is to facilitate client to reach self-awareness and to have a better understanding of the problems by identifying where the origin of the issue as well as underlying causes that may be present. Psychodynamic

Minor breaches in boundary such as briefly touching the clients hands to show support when they are very emotional is considered insignificant and can sometimes be beneficial to client, however, major breaches such as regularly answering client’s call outside of workplace is more severe, and can be harmful to client’s treatment (Williams and Swartz, 1998). Britzman and Pitt (1996) described transference as impression of unresolved past conflict with others that is projected

the client’s attitudes, feelings and emotional conflicts from past events begin to be directed to the therapist, while Countertransference is exactly the opposite, when the therapist’s attitudes, feelings, and emotional conflicts from the past are directed towards the client (Transference and Countertransference, 2011). There are not too many positive factors with Countertransference, except being able to recognize it, when it exists, and be able to work out any conflict. A client’s experiences can

Vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and satisfaction, burnout and countertransference are all very realistic concerns for social workers. Social workers in various settings often have clients that are either going through traumatic events in their lives or have experienced trauma in some form. Social workers, social work practice, and service to clients are all heavily influenced by these factors. In order to provide quality service to clients, maintain a healthy working

From the above vignette, it shows that the alliance between Amy and myself is one where we were building trust and developing a relationship. During our initial visit, Amy discussed her academic achievement the previous year, but, she was reluctant to discuss issues surrounding her home life that is now affecting her academics. At the beginning of this session, I realized that building an alliance with Amy will take time to develop trust. Reflecting on my interaction with Amy, I believe I did a

case during case consultation because I noticed that I had countertransference when doing his intake. My expectation when presenting this case was to receive feedback that would help me to provide effective treatment to Esteban without my countertransference affecting his treatment. This section of the paper will talk about the feedback I received about my countertransference and how to support Esteban. First of all, my countertransference with Esteban’s case is that I have strong feelings about how

present challenges on many levels to include culturally. In the case of a challenging client, a social worker must effectively deploy engagement strategies to break through those barriers. A thorough examination of obstacles with engagement, countertransference,

At my current placement I take on the role of a case manager, providing individual and family therapy to a mandated teen and his parent. Although transference and countertransference are often seen as disruptive to the therapeutic alliance and in general as an extremely bad things as a professional I believe that counter transference and transference can be important tools to working with resistant clients. I do not stand alone in this thinking many of Social Work founding theorist actually suggest

and ongoing cost. The therapist came to dread seeing her client and began to hope that he would ring to cancel sessions. King and O’Brian ask whether the countertransference she has likely attributed to the situation is truly justifiable. There are many possible explanations for her feelings. The two most likely reasons for countertransference are that the therapist feels ill equipped to provide the assistance required, or that she has a general dislike for all people she has encountered who are