Transference Issues in Counseling

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Transference & Counter-Transference Issues

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Transference Occurs When—

  • The counselor notices that the client is viewing the counselor through models that the client has for relationships other than the counselor-client relationship.
  • The counselor often notices transference when the client’s models are of relationships that involve parent-to-child or authority-to-subordinate transactions.
  • , the client sees the counselor as someone they have had problems with, like a parent or teacher.

Counter-Transference Occurs When—

  • The counselor notices they are viewing the client through the counselor’s models for relationships other than the counselor-client relationship.
  • Simply, the counselor is reacting to the client as if they were someone they had issues with.

Transference Awareness Is Helpful—

  • To establish and maintain a collaborative counselor-client relationship.
  • Transference helps discover client models of relationships.
  • Transference is helpful to teach that more effective models for relating do exist.
  • To teach how to relate to the person in front of you instead of to past dysfunctional relationships.

Counter-Transference Awareness Is Helpful—

  • To help the counselor stop projecting past dysfunctional relationships onto the client.
  • To help the counselor to seek supervision for their past problematic relationships.
  • To help the counselor focus on the needs of the client, not the counselor.

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Transference: Quotations from Scripture on Counseling

Listed Biblically

“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” —Proverbs 1:5

“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” —Proverbs 11:14

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” —Proverbs 12:15

“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.” —Proverbs 12:20

“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.” —Proverbs 15:22

“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.” —Proverbs 19:20

“Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.” —Proverbs 20:18

“Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.” —Isaiah 16:3

“Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull [straying alone.]” —Ecclesiasticus 6:2

“As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.” —Ecclesiasticus 22:16

“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21

“A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 32:18

“And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.” —Ecclesiasticus 37:13

“Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.” —Ecclesiasticus 38:33

“Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both.” —Ecclesiasticus 40:25


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Transference: Related Pages of Free Information

  1. CBT, CT, & REBT Cognitive Psychotherapies: List Pages
  2. Coping Skills: Free Help
  3. Counseling Issues: Free Help
  4. Ego & Self-Esteem Fast-Facts
  5. Emotional Responsibility: List Pages
  6. Exercises & Techniques: List Pages
  7. Feeling & Coping: Fast-Facts
  8. Psychoanalysis: The Problems with Solutions
  9. REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy): List Pages
  10. Self-Esteem Issues: List Pages
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