The Counselor's Self-Care

Personal therapy for counselors = Necessary form of ongoing self-care Transference = Process whereby clients project onto their therapists past feelings or attitudes Countertransference = Total emotional response to a client, including feelings, associations, fantasies, and fleeting images Examples of countertransference = Being overprotective with a client, treating clients in benign ways, rejecting a client, needing constant reinforcement

Counselor as a person and as a professional = Must be aware of the influence of their own personality and needs Remediation purposes = Identifying and exploring blind spots and potential areas of countertransference for remediation purposes Destructive element in the therapeutic relationship = Occurs when clinicians demonstrate inappropriate affect, respond in highly defensive ways, or lose their objectivity because their own conflicts are triggered Influence of the counselor's personality = Topic 1 in the introduction to psychotherapy, understanding the influence of the counselor's own personality and needs

Blind spots and potential areas of countertransference = Areas that counselors need to identify and explore for remediation purposes Clinicians' inappropriate affect = Part of countertransference, demonstrating inappropriate emotional responses to clients Constructive element in the therapeutic relationship = A positive aspect of countertransference in the therapeutic relationship Objectivity in the therapeutic relationship = Lost when clinicians respond in highly defensive ways or when their own conflicts are triggered

<p>Therapeutic relationship = The interaction and relationship between the counselor and the client during the counseling process Client's transference = Projecting past feelings or attitudes onto the therapist Clinicians' need for constant reinforcement = An example of countertransference in which the clinician exhibits a need for constant validation from the client Overprotective behavior with a client = An example of countertransference in which the clinician displays excessive protectiveness towards the client</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rejecting a client = Example of countertransference Treating clients in benign ways = Example of countertransference Identifying and exploring blind spots = Part of personal therapy for counselors Needing constant reinforcement = Example of countertransference</p> Signup and view all the answers

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