Critical Thinking Reflection

Finally, this recording is of interest to me because countertransference was and is still being used in our sessions. Each time the client talks about his grandmother and how he was not able to attend her funeral, he becomes sad and immediately starts grieving. I can tell because the tone of his voice changes, his body positions and mannerisms change, as well as his train of thought. I didn’t notice it in the beginning, but each time we have a dialogue about his grandmother, his feelings of his grandmother are being projected on me and makes me realize that I have unwanted grief and a little bit of anger towards my mother, who took my grandmother off life support before I arrived at the hospital. Taking my grandmother off life support prohibited …show more content…
Nonetheless, he did provide for them financially, when he was not in incarcerated, but failed to show them emotional and loving support. He failed because he as a child was not shown love or emotional support, so it makes sense that he would not know how to reciprocate it back to his children. Had he continued to live with his grandmother where he was loved, disciplined the proper way, shown guidance and structure, his life probably would have turned out differently, but he was not giving the opportunity, which killed him on the inside. The client having to endure the death of his mother and grandmother and two funerals he didn’t get to attend really caused more pain and …show more content…
I will continue to use the intervention of NT because that therapy I believe is located in compassion which involves extensive active listening, listening to his language, and remembering his words while showing understanding and empathy. As of right now, I have had my client re-tell me his story from his point of view. At the end of each session I make him tell me three strengths about himself, which result from the re-authoring of his life story regarding his trials and tribulations from his child hood to adulthood and where he is at now. During our last session, he was quick to recognize that he had been through tremendous adversities as a young man, experienced many deaths, overcame a drug addiction, and was given the opportunity to help take care of his mother at the end of her final days. He recognized strengths about himself that dealt with becoming more compassionate and forgiving as he ages, being able to push forward despite his decline of independence (being wheelchair bound and on hospice takes away some of his independence) and being blessed to live another day so that he can talk about his problems and understand his life story.
NT intervention relates to my process recording because it makes my client realize that he is not a problem, like his family made him out to be. NT also makes my client realize that his environment and the way he grew up was the problem, not him. Most