**Claire Harding** I live in Idaho. (Yes, potatoes. \*eye roll\* Can we talk about something else?) And I love it here. Small town values galore and it's right where I want to raise my girls after my jerk ex traded me in for a "younger, newer model" (his words, not mine). My mom's the volu
Good grief and not-so-good grief: Countertransference in bereavement therapy
✍ Scribed by Jeffrey A. Hayes; Yun-Jy Yeh; Alanna Eisenberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between therapists' grief related to the death of a loved one and clients' perceptions of the process of bereavement therapy. Mail survey data were obtained from 69 client–therapist dyads. Results indicated that the extent to which therapists missed deceased loved ones was inversely related to client perceptions of therapist empathy, but not to client ratings of the alliance, session depth, or therapist credibility. Therapist acceptance of the death of a loved one was unrelated to any of the dependent measures. Results are discussed in terms of countertransference and its management. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 63: 345–355, 2007.