Transference

Description of Client The client that came in for counseling presented a couple of issues about her, she is 39 and Caucasian. Some have underlying meaning, which lead back to her childhood, other issues accumulated through adulthood with marriage and family. She feels that she is a “good wife” and “good mother.” The client also expresses how she always gives and gives until there is very little to give anymore. She feels very down, anxious, and does not really know where to go or what to…

Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted is a story that takes place in a psychiatric ward during the late 1960’s in Massachusetts. The main character is an eighteen-year-old girl Susana Kaysen, who suffers from borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a debilitating high-risk disease associated with strong emotional suffering that impairs everyday functioning (Fertuck, Karan, & Stanley, 2016, p. 1). She is a troubled teenager who recently left high school and appears…

While reading literature, it is crucial to recognize the importance of the messages stories provide as well as the perspectives characters offer the reader. “Stickeen” by John Muir and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison are both centered around the powerful perspectives of innocents. In both stories, certain youthful or naive characters have been able to encourage personal growth in their peers or elders, making their high value crucial in the stories. Due to their unique and fleeting perspective,…

to be aware of his/her own value and worldviews. All therapists are different individuals that have their own values and worldviews. The importance of the therapist is to have clear values and worldviews so it helps him/her be aware of possible transference and countertransference issues between the therapist and patients. Moreover, it also helps him/her to make accurate…

homosexuality as a negative, and therefore, unacceptable, undesirable, and unfulfilling way of life that must be altered. Regardless of the counselors’ personal opinions and perceptions of homosexuality they are obligated to be aware of counter transference issues and make it a point to not project their own conviction upon clients. Such a stance affirming the need to convert gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients to heterosexual orientation using risky measures is no longer backed by the mental…

If somebody discloses their knowledge regarding an abuse they have experienced, are currently experiencing, or are otherwise uninvolved in, it is important to inform them of the treatments and actions they are able to pursue. To share this knowledge with someone is to give them hope. Unsurprisingly, it is very common for victims to develop psychological disorders as a result of their experiences. Fortunately, the majority of these disorders are very treatable through therapy and medication. S…

The state of nature refers to human nature, where there is naturally liberty and no external impediment to human behaviour. Hobbes pessimistic portrayal of life in a hypothetical state as “solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short” hinges on the assumption of self-interested and competitive individualism. He indicates his preference for unadulterated absolutism by an artificially appointed sovereign because by nature, then, our method of knowing the world is solipsistic. His arguments are…

There is a lack of comprehensive support for at-risk youth and their families in America. At-risk youth face severe challenges to becoming well-adjusted adults. Without these intensive supportive programs, at-risk youth resort to gang life, dropping out of school, developing mental health issues, and becoming substance abuse users. These behaviors often lead to incarceration and cost tax payers millions of dollars in rehabilitation costs. According to Barnert (2015), characteristics of at-risk…

Midterm exam Christopher Columbus is definitely one of the most important figures of the world history. Not only for the fact that in 1467 he travelled to Iceland when he was sixteen years old, but also for the fact that he discovered America in 1492 at the same time as he was searching for a new trade route to the Indies. Columbus was now making the first connections between the Europeans and the Americans. Leading then to the famous “Colombians exchange” which was extensive transfer of animals…

Karpetis points this out in his Psychoanalytic Insights and Empowerment in Social Work Practice: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the ‘Transference Interpretation to the Setting’ Technique. He found while doing research for his study that “practice principles like… empowerment are often treated as ‘theories of practice’… Frequently proposed practise skills include empathy… optimism, deep listening…