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WEEK 5 DQ 1/LISA BARKER
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Check My Assignment!Discuss the role of self-disclosure, maintaining boundaries, client resistance, transference, and countertransference on the dynamics of clinical relationships and the client’s progress in therapy.
The counseling process can be very difficult and when deemed appropriate, the counselor can utilize self-disclosure by sharing their own personal views or experience in order to help the client through the problem (McCarthy & Archer, 2013). However, making sure the client is benefiting the most and not the counselor is the key ingredient. For example, if the client is experiencing divorce and the counselor has to, then the counselor can share how they coped and dealt with this problem. In the counseling process, maintaining boundaries is important because if the counselor ever feels the situation is to much, then ending or acknowledging boundaries are important too. In both, self-disclosure and boundaries, client resistance can develop if they are not delivered in the counseling session properly. This could go bad and then be turned around if the counselor is able to understand where the resistance is coming from in the client’s life. However, in the reading transference and countertransference both play even a bigger role because when using things such as the family tree, the counselor can see immediate important or close relationships and distant or past relationships, which some may be negative (McCarthy & Archer, 2013).
Which negative contexts do you feel are most likely to inhibit growth or progress?
The two that are most able to give a negative impact are self-disclosure and countertransference. The reasoning being that self-disclosure can lose focus and become more focused on counselor and not the client. Countertransference can bring about hidden unwanted people in the client’s life, which can bring about hidden hostility, anger, and confusion (McCarthy & Archer, 2013). If all of these contexts are not handled properly, it can cease progress by bringing about unwanted people in the client’s life and hinder the clinical relationship because the client may start to feel as though no help is being given because the focus is wrong. Also, in my opinion and after talking to a counselor friend in the past, the counselor used to say, “if these clients want help, they will do three things and that is participate or talk, do homework, and show up for all sessions and call when they cannot make it.”
Reference
McCarthy, C. J. & Archer, J., Jr. (2013). Theories of counseling and psychotherapy. San Diego: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
