Transference In Counselling

Children or adolescents who have been sexually abused should consult a counsellor and join psychoanalytic group psychotherapy to help with their emotional growth or identify and overcome their fear with instilling hope and restoring their self-esteem. The definition of sexual abuse is someone getting raped, sexual assault, it is an unwanted sexual activity that is forced by someone that takes advantage of it without the given consent of the victim even though the victim knows the culprit most of the time. One out of three children are sexually abused and did not tell anyone about it at the point of time (Radford, Corral, Bradley, Fisher, Bassett, Howat, & Collishaw, 2011). Psychoanalytic therapy involves a therapist listening to an individual

Transference is known as a technique to make the unconscious conscious and purpose of it is for the members to face the guilt, explore the anxiety, and feel the satisfaction that was not able to achieve before. Transference happens throughout the session when the participants unconsciously displayed emotions or actions to the counsellor and past connections seem to be rehashed onto the relationship between them. Countertransference is the redirection of a counsellor’s feelings toward an individual, or more generally known as a counsellor's emotional entanglement with an individual. In another word, countertransference is the opposite of transference. Free association is a technique that lets the member’s thoughts and feelings known by talking freely. Rutter (2009) found that the analyst’s own interpretations are a translation of the client’s expressed emotions and behaviors. Rutan, Stone, and Shay (2014) all interpretations are rooted in the here and now. A successful interpretation frees individuals so that they can more successfully face the avoided

The benefits of it would be that individuals who have relations with the other members in group becomes independent over time as oppose to individual therapy where they would be dependent on the therapist. Cost of being in this group therapy is relatively low unlike those intensive therapy, it would benefit financial wise. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is helpful for those long term or repeating issues by getting to the root of the problems with enough understanding to change destructive ways of identifying themselves as well as others (McQueen, 2008). Victims of sexual abuse tend to act out in session as that is the only way that they can show it (Elzer & Gerlach, 2014). By altering the attachment style, individuals can figure out their emotional distress for what it is that would make them seek and accept caring from everyone around them fittingly (McQueen,