Your textbook addresses the dangers and skills of self-disclosure and the need for monitoring counter-transference. How do you manage the danger and skills of self-disclosure? How might you avoid or react to an occurrence of countertransference?
In your responses to your classmates’ posts, reflect on their initial posts and consider whether you think the benefits of self-disclosure outweigh the potential risk and dangers.
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Building a relationship is important with your client, and self-disclosure is a way to appropriately separate yourself from your client. Making sure that you appropriately set personal boundaries with the amount you talk about yourself is important. Comparing yourself to your client or talking about your personal experiences can put a bitter taste in people’s mouths, and make them feel as if you’re not lost to them. There is a fine line of making the client not feel alone, but making sure that they are still in a professional setting. Counter-Transference is something that can easily happen when trying to let the client know they are not alone. But it would be easy for me to be passionate about certain topics, and get carried away, but I would try and stop myself and apologize for my mis direction of our conversation and try to get back on track.
Ivey, A. E., Ivey, M. B., & Zalaquett, C. P. (2016). Essentials of intentional interviewing: Counseling in a Multicultural World. Cengage Learning.
