compare and contrast your own viewpoints to your peer’s post.
Your response should include evidence-based research to support your statements using proper citations and APA format.
peer’s post
Areas that have potential to trigger countertransference for me for example are sometimes at my job where we deal with a lot of vulnerable populations. Most are addicted to drugs and could be drug seeking. I noticed sometimes that when a patient say they are in pain, even though I will not argue with them, I would almost give a not caring attitude just because of the behaviors I have experienced with some of the others client and I will quickly remind myself that pain is subjective and that it is not fare to judge other people because of my experience with other clients. As a therapist, I think I will be able to manage my own countertransference by spotting my feelings, and picking up on cues that may be defenses, like getting irritated or being anxious. As a new therapist, attending a client’s transfer patterns will not be a bad idea also.
Transference according to (Corey, G. Pg. 70-71, 2017) is the client’s unconscious shifting to the analyst of feelings, attitudes, and fantasies(both positive and negative ) that are reactions to significant others in the client’s past. In plain language, it is when a person redirects their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person. An example would be, when one notices or observes the characteristics of one’s mother in your lecturer or a colleague. The person begins to attribute these motherly feelings to the lecturer or colleague. These feelings could be bad or good. This can also occur between a client and a therapist. It will depend on the client’s emotional reaction to the therapist depending on how the clients see the person.
Countertransference on the hand is “the therapist unconscious emotional responses to a client based on the therapist’s own past”. This response of the therapist to this client may include anger, withdrawal, avoidance control, love, sadness, annoyance etc. It suffices also to say that a Positive countertransference may be used to some benefit in a therapist-client relationship (Linn-Walton et al, 1014). This can happen when a therapist sees a client’s behavior like that of a junior brother for example and thus has a soft spot for that client and the therapist is willing to do anything that will help the client to feel better.
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own viewpoints
In psychotherapeutic settings,
countertransference is viewed as a product of joint creation in which both the
therapist and the client have contributed. Countertransference is founded on
the therapist’s previous experiences and is introduced by the patient’s
behavior. Countertransference occurs when a psychotherapist expresses their
emotions to a patient during therapy. On the other hand, transference occurs
when the patient redirects their feelings to the therapist during treatment.
Therapists may experience different thoughts and feelings stimulated by the
client in various contexts; thus, countertransference is considered a crucial
component of therapy (Piedfort-Marin, 2018). Transference occurs when the
client redirects an unconscious feeling, expectation, or desire towards the
therapist. Transference helps the therapist recognize the client’s patterns of
relational interactions.
A major trigger of countertransference reactions in
me could be a stressful or a traumatic experienced that I had.
Countertransference can be identified through various behaviors during therapy,
such as excessive self-disclosure or having an interest in irrelevant client
details. Therapists who act their feelings towards the patient on therapy or
engage in inappropriate behaviors during treatment are likely to manage
countertransference ineffectively (Piedfort-Marin, 2018). Thus, therapists need
to be mindful of their feelings and experiences when dealing with clients with
stressful or traumatic experiences to achieve better outcomes. Besides, they
need to establish a therapeutic relationship by creating healthy boundaries,
being self-aware, and recognizing countertransference when it occurs.
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