SOWK 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peekaboo, Countertransference, Paralanguage

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 2001
• Professor: Maureen Cech

Document Summary

Listening see(cid:373)s to (cid:271)e a (cid:374)atural skill (cid:271)ut it"s the (cid:373)ost diffi(cid:272)ult o(cid:374)e. ceder(cid:271)org"s research (1997) showed that child psychiatric sessions, talk 93. 5% of the time. Body language conveys 90% of the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:373)essage. Beware of countertransference: this o(cid:272)(cid:272)urs (cid:449)he(cid:374) the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)e sti(cid:373)ulates/triggers (cid:449)ork to proje(cid:272)t her/his o(cid:449)(cid:374) thoughts and emotions on the child, the workers transgers his/her feelings of the mother onto the child. The third thing: something that the worker and child focus on together which takes them away from the uncomfortable intensity of their interaction and can defuse tensions in difficult situations. For example: art work, toys, board games, animals. As we listen to a problem-saturated story, it is important to support the child in externalizing, contextualizing and re-authoring. The attentive listening of the social worker, helps the child to pinpoint the problem and remove it from the story, giving it a name or metaphor.