Counselor as a Person & Exploring our Values Flashcards
What is the primary purpose of the Code of Ethics?
To protect the welfare of clients by providing care that is in their best interest. -Beneficence/Nonmaleficence
Transference
Client projects their feelings onto the therapist. Client’s reactions to the therapist based on previous important relationships. These reactions can take the form of intense thoughts, feelings, attitudes, fantasies, behaviors.
Countertransference
This is the therapists reactions to clients based on previous important relationships- projecting our thoughts, feelings, attitudes, fantasies, behaviors onto the client. It is intensified be our own experiences/issues
What are some examples of countertransference?
-Being over protective, wanting to “save” the client, think that you are the only person who can help, developing sexual or romantic feelings, developing a social relationship, giving advice, seeing yourself in the client, needing constant reinforcement/approval/admiration, feeling disconnected/ bored/numb, intense feelings of anger or rage, thinking about the client a great deal of the time.
Burnout
Physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual exhaustion; feelings of helplessness/hopelessness
(Similar to depression).
Importance of self care
Do what gives you meaning and joy in life; intimacy and time with loved ones; basic wellness principles/ balance
Rational Suicide
Person has rationally decided after going through a decision making process to end his/her life (No coercion from others) due to extreme suffering associated with terminal illness
Aid-in-dying
Providing the means for a person to die and the person to self administer the lethal agent
Hastened death
Speeding up the dying process (Extra morphine, withholding or withdrawing of life support
Intense Countertransferance
Can lead to loss of objectivity and at worst harm the client
What is the goal of countertransference?
Become aware of our “stuff” and not let is seep into the therapeutic relationship
-Avoiding harm= discuss with supervisor, consult, bring to your personal therapy, clinical seminar
What are the Pros for a counselor-in-training to go through psychotherapy?
Understanding one own values/biases, Having the experience of being the client, working through material that gets evoked with clients, Talking through issues that may not be as appropriate to discuss with supervisor/advisor/faculty, An aspect of self care
What are the Cons for a counselor-in-training to go through psychotherapy?
Expense, May have been in therapy and do not feel the need to continue at this time, Actively engaging in other therapeutic modalities
What are the end-of-life care themes?
Acknowledges complexity of issues involved with this population, Offers guidelines for working with the terminally ill, Competence-Choice and referral, Confidentiality-option not to break
