Countertransference

This journal entry will access my competence on things covered in the textbook for week two which include knowing the difference between rapport and empathy, understanding counter-transference, knowing my own needs and having self-awareness, and can identify and describe safety and engagement guidelines for home visits. In addition, other things that will be discussed are understanding the different assessment models, describing the use of ROPES and PIE systems and can articulate the correct questioning

therapeutic process resulting in feelings and thoughts conceivably affecting someone else and maybe reversed from client to counsellor as well. Alternatively, the counsellor may have unconsciously brought, proactive countertransference, Clarkson, P, (2002) to the process. Proactive countertransference is defined as thoughts, feelings, and the ambience that are introduced into the process by the counsellor. However, in saying this, if the counsellor was consciously awareness of this within the process they

over four years. It was difficult for me to be attuned to this client. I noticed my mind to start to wander away from what the client was saying, my heart was racing and body becoming tense. I was experiencing subjective countertransference. Subjective countertransference takes place when unresolved issues of the

keeping the client’s needs first. It covers many aspects of self-disclosure including ethically what to look for in the motives of using self-disclosure with a client. There are other aspects of self-disclosure which include transference and countertransference which are issues which need to be attended to immediately for the therapist to remain objective and not react to a client. Therapists must be cautious in disclosing information and make sure it is relevant to treatment. Beneficence and nonmaleficence

concerned with a patient's unconscious material use the transference to reveal unresolved conflicts patients have with figures from their childhoods. Countertransference is defined as redirection of a therapist's feelings toward a client, or more generally as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a client. A therapist's atonement to his own countertransference is nearly as critical as his understanding of the transference. Not only does this help the therapist regulate his or her own emotions in the

Following with Empathic Concern, noticing the pain of others and wanting to help the other person. Thirdly is Exposure to the client, the more time face to face with a consumer. Consecutively follows Empathic Response – taking the steps and making an effort to help reduce or alleviate the suffering of the consumer through understanding. Afterward becomes Compassion Stress, the stress one feels from the additional empathy towards another. Sixth is Sense of Achievement; the extent to which the helping

to be the client of interest, I believe it would be beneficial to invite Tova and Travis to join their daughter in counseling. My hope is that Avery will find the space within herself to embrace her unique multicultural identity. Potential Countertransference As a multicultural counselor, I want to learn about the different worldviews of my clients and understand my own reactions (Sue & Sue, 2012, p. 6). I understand the advantages I have as a White person, and that many systems I take for granted

• Counselling: “The professional guidance of the individual by utilising psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes” (Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, n.d.). It is the process in which a counsellor creates a safe and open environment for a client to speak about a problem that may be affecting them or if they need guidance in how to deal with a particular situation. • Therapy: “The therapeutic

one of many reasons and it can be difficult to break down the barriers to build the need rapport even when the social worker has the ability to display empathy. I can consistently identify the concept of countertransference when observing and analyzing practice activities. Countertransference is an emotional reaction from the social worker to the client. As social workers we often times spend a great deal of time with client allowing us to know a great amount of information about the client, which

The service user I chose to assess is a 17-year-old Hispanic male whose modified name is Ricardo Sanchez. I provided casework services to Ricardo for two years in my previous role as a Therapeutic Caseworker at my current workplace, the Children’s Village, a foster care agency. Ricardo was placed in foster care after he was removed from his father’s care due to verbal and physical abuse. Ricardo’s father assumed his custody after Ricardo’s mother passed over a drug overdose when he was 15. This was