Client Worker Relationship Issues
The foundation of any therapeutic relationship must be built on trust and respect in order to form a working alliance or collaborative partnership. Developing therapeutic goals requires the therapist and client to work collaboratively. This relationship or alliance process results in numerous emotions developing during the therapeutic process; countertransference has a natural and expected occurrence during the client worker relationship. The client-therapist relationship is a key component of psychotherapy and that it influences treatment outcome, it’s important to understand how this relationship can be fostered or damaged (Ligiero & Gelso, 2002). During therapy sessions with children and adolescents, the …show more content…
Over identify, desire to protect, rescue fantasies, competiveness with parents, and befriending are just a few of the countertransference response and behaviors therapists have reported experiencing when counseling children and adolescents (Ligiero & Gelso, 2002). It’s important for a therapist to pay attention and monitor any countertransference. “Awareness of the counter-transference that manifests itself in child therapy is the key to understanding the child's psychological issues, the child's family, and the relationship between child and therapist” (Gil & Rubin, 2005, p. 89). Research case studies have also proven that a therapist can address his or her counter-transference by using strategies consistent with the treatment modularity that the therapist is using with his or her client. For example, a child therapist who uses art or play therapy as an invention technique can also utilize these same inventions to …show more content…
Utilizing assessment, counseling, consultation and coordination of services (Hansen, Litzelman, Marsh, & Milspaw, 2004). Clinical Social Workers support a client’s educational and academic success with focus on their social-emotional and basic needs, and parental engagement. In the TF-CBT treatment, clinical social workers help clients understand the trauma through psychoeducation by teaching coping skills (control breathing). Therapist teach the client how to express emotions appropriately and help develop cognitive coping skills. Also therapist enhance communication skills with caregiver and teach parent to manage problem behaviors. In addition, provide caregiver education and support throughout the therapeutic
The foundation of any therapeutic relationship must be built on trust and respect in order to form a working alliance or collaborative partnership. Developing therapeutic goals requires the therapist and client to work collaboratively. This relationship or alliance process results in numerous emotions developing during the therapeutic process; countertransference has a natural and expected occurrence during the client worker relationship. The client-therapist relationship is a key component of psychotherapy and that it influences treatment outcome, it’s important to understand how this relationship can be fostered or damaged (Ligiero & Gelso, 2002). During therapy sessions with children and adolescents, the …show more content…
Over identify, desire to protect, rescue fantasies, competiveness with parents, and befriending are just a few of the countertransference response and behaviors therapists have reported experiencing when counseling children and adolescents (Ligiero & Gelso, 2002). It’s important for a therapist to pay attention and monitor any countertransference. “Awareness of the counter-transference that manifests itself in child therapy is the key to understanding the child's psychological issues, the child's family, and the relationship between child and therapist” (Gil & Rubin, 2005, p. 89). Research case studies have also proven that a therapist can address his or her counter-transference by using strategies consistent with the treatment modularity that the therapist is using with his or her client. For example, a child therapist who uses art or play therapy as an invention technique can also utilize these same inventions to …show more content…
Utilizing assessment, counseling, consultation and coordination of services (Hansen, Litzelman, Marsh, & Milspaw, 2004). Clinical Social Workers support a client’s educational and academic success with focus on their social-emotional and basic needs, and parental engagement. In the TF-CBT treatment, clinical social workers help clients understand the trauma through psychoeducation by teaching coping skills (control breathing). Therapist teach the client how to express emotions appropriately and help develop cognitive coping skills. Also therapist enhance communication skills with caregiver and teach parent to manage problem behaviors. In addition, provide caregiver education and support throughout the therapeutic