Lesson 8: A Healing Relationship


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Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:

  • Apply the Freudian concepts of Transference and Countertransferrence to an analysis of the helping relationship
  • Identify ways in which contracting is vital to the therapeutic process
  • Identify ways in which the social support network of the therapist is important to the therapeutic process

Teaching

  • Read "Chapter 7: A Healing Relationship" in Trauma and Recovery

Assessment

Lesson 8 Discussion A

As you can tell by the division within the book, we are turning a corner the analysis of Trauma...we enter the Stages of Recovery.

We have learned that, above all, the damage of trauma is a destruction of relationships. Sometimes the destruction are of the relationships that are the most important to us.

The concepts we are exposed to are classic Freudian constructs of Transferrence and Countertransferrence. Using the definitions to these terms discuss the various personal struggles one might have with transferrence and countertransferrence in the therapy or helping relationship.

Lesson 8 Discussion B

Discuss how contracting the process of therapy and the social support network of the therapist are vital to a successful therapeutic process.