Transference

intense feelings from therapy that engaging in sex with the therapist is an acceptable form of therapy. In his study he also found that half of counsellors that have sex with clients are mistaken that they are in love and this is actually transference. Transference is the unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to the next. Secondly dual relationships are ethical violations counsellors have with clients. Dual relationships are defined as counsellors that take holidays with their…

Mental illness is a condition that impacts a person’s thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on daily basis. With the background and element that goes into the concept of mental illness we can now describe some prominent frames that have been used to explain such phenomena in modern time. It is widely accepted that individuals can be disturbed or troubled of mind and what is controversial is how we should understand this. Asides…

In The Poisonwood Bible, the most complex relationship between two characters is between Leah and her father Nathan Price. While the other characters see Nathan for who he is before they enter the Congo, Leah does not. Unable to interact directly with God, Leah transfers her religion onto her father. The figure of her earthly father becomes a stand-in for the figure of her heavenly father. As Leah’s faith in her father wanes, so does her faith in God. For Leah, her father embodies her religion.…

attitude of disrespect and intolerance for the defense that cripple the client’s functioning and perpetuate his suffering (Malan & Della Selva, 2012). The therapist takes on an active role to intensifies intrapsychic conflicts and generates complex transference feelings that make rapid change possible (Della Selva, 1996; Malan & Della Selva, 2012). It is clear from the beginning that the therapist is working diligently and is presenting a challenge to the client to join in and work at his or her…

There are two critical mistakes that parents make in the transference of faith to their children. The first is to impose faith in such a way that the child grows up with a false sense of assurance because they have never genuinely embraced faith in a personal way but rely on what their parents did or rituals their parent’s took them through. The second mistake is to have a mindset that “the child can decide for themselves about religion and faith” and to back away from clear guidance. Where is…

Student and Supervisee Responsibilities F.5.a Ethical Responsibilities As future working counselors in the field of mental health, the importance of understanding the ethical values and the role they play is paramount when dealing with people with mental health issues. We not only should observe each one of them, but also grasp the meaning of being ethically responsible. Ethical competence is both an ethical and a legal concept which allows for practitioners to protect and serve their clients…

Self-care. Self-care refers to monitoring one’s own physical, psychological, social, and spiritual welfare when working with clients. When we are our best, we are most effective in helping clients, however to be at our best we must take care of ourselves. Lack of self-care (i.e. self-neglect) leads to distress, professional burnout, vicarious traumatisation, burnout and impaired professional competence. While research has stated that approximately 15% of individuals who work in a therapeutic…

In an ideal situation termination will be determined by improvement in the presenting problem and the client meeting their treatment goals and objectives. The termination summary should include the total number of sessions the client participated in, presenting problem including reason for the referral, the course of treatment and response to therapy, reason for termination, diagnosis at termination and any recommendations. The termination stage is just important as the beginning phase in…

Sigmund Freud a person with many titles under his belt focused mainly on an individual’s unconscious state of mind. Freud was a psychologist, physiologist and medical doctor. He created and lived by psychoanalysis. He believed people live the events of their unconscious on a daily basis. Carl Jung the founder of analytical psychology, which is the study of psychoanalytic and individual psyche; similarly to Freud, Jung studies mainly focuses on the unconscious. Their beliefs and ideas of what…

Advertisements are known to have hidden meanings within them. The product being sold, whether it is clothes, food, or cars, have an underlying message that reflects the advertiser’s attention and the consumer’s ideals. In the advertisement I analyzed on True Religion Brand Jeans, the advertisement depicts a black and white photograph of an attractive male and female model on a motorcycle in the desert to which the female model is looking out into the distance with her head turned away from the…