NUTR 610 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Countertransference
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Baggage prior life experiences (fine 2006: countertransference and transference: both concepts involve a phenomenon whereby the attitudes, values, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and reactions of the counselor and the client. A result of significant relationships and experiences from the past are subjectively and often unconsciously conveyed to each other during a session: address countertransference: Identify powerful moments of emotions: how to handle client"s transference, empathy. Intellectual humility: an awareness of the limits of one"s knowledge, including the tendency to be self-deceptive and biased. Intellectual courage: the willingness to face and fairly assess ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints to which they have not given a serious hearing, regardless of one"s strong negative reactions to them. Intellectual empathy: recognizing the need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of others to genuinely understand them. Thoughts are often not their own, they are a collection of ideas from others. Accept beliefs that come easiest to them to access.
