FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: The Counselor, Countertransference, Neurofeedback

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

As the counselor, share your own related past personal life experiences, observations, or feelings toward the client. Disclosure statements usually start with (cid:498)i(cid:499) statements. Self-disclosure encourages in-depth responses and comfortable relationships. Sensitivity and awareness of client needs are central. Clients of counselors who self-disclose report lower levels of symptom distress and like the counselor more. If you are significantly different from the client on any dimension of the. Respectful model, the differences need to be discussed. Theorists & clinicians: argue against self-disclosure, prefer to keep the relationship distant. Humanistic oriented & feminist: see the value in in appropriate disclosure. Multicultural: considers early disclosure essential for trust building. Countertransference: an unwise conscious or unconscious entanglement with the client s issues, causing boundaries between the counselor and client to be violated. Clients issues may remind you of your own causing the focus to be on the counselor instead of the client. Self-disclosure should not be too distant from the clients concern.