An analysis of the concept of countertransference

Ens, Irene C.

doi:10.1016/s0883-9417(98)80037-x

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“…Related concepts include therapists' withdrawal, overprotectiveness, sympathy or identification with the patient. 85 Management of counter-transference issues consists of five interrelated factors: self-insight, self-integration, empathy, anxiety management and conceptualising ability. 86 …”

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confidence: 99%

A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

Cahill¹,

Barkham²,

Hardy³

et al. 2008

Health Technol Assess

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Section: Reflection and Metacommunicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

Cahill¹,

Barkham²,

Hardy³

et al. 2008

Health Technol Assess

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“…Adequate knowledge and measurement of countertransference are thus necessary steps in the therapeutic context between care providers and patients. Several reports regarding care providers’ countertransference towards patients have previously been discussed from such a perspective 1–7 …”

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“…Countertransference may be perceived in the nurse’s level of involvement with the patient (over‐involvement, withdrawal), in physical symptoms, and in the positive and negative descriptions of patients by nurses 5 . In the context of psychiatric nursing, ‘mutual withdrawal’ and ‘countertransference acting out’ are surrogate terms for negative countertransference while ‘over‐protectiveness’, ‘over‐involvement’ and ‘sympathy’ are surrogate terms for positive countertransference 6 . Additionally, it is important to be cognizant of nurses’ countertransference reaction when working with patients who self‐injure, because negative reactions by nurses may be reflected upon and used to develop deeper empathic relationships with patients 7 …”

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“…To date, many descriptive studies on countertransference have been published in the psychiatric mental health literature 1–7 . The Feeling Checklist (FC), developed in Sweden, is a self‐report scale for the objective assessment of countertransference by clinical staff 8–10 .…”

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“…Several reports regarding care providers' countertransference towards patients have previously been discussed from such a perspective. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] One of the traditional analyses of the doctor-patient relationship has used concepts of transference and countertransference. 1 It has been reported that the consulting or treating psychiatrist can help establish and sustain that therapeutic alliance by enhancing physician awareness of both the transference and countertransference.…”

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Countertransference to psychiatric patients in a clinical setting: Development of the Feeling Checklist–Japanese version

Katsuki

Goto

Takagi

et al. 2006

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Countertransference is an important dimension of the therapeutic alliance between care providers and patients. The Feeling Checklist (FC) is a self-report questionnaire for the assessment of countertransference by hospital staff toward patients. The FC was translated from English into Japanese and its factor structure, reliability, and validity in the Japanese version (FC-J) were examined. A total of 281 Japanese psychiatric nurses were tested with the FC-J. All nurses were primarily involved in provision of psychiatric care. Principal-component factor analysis with varimax rotation was performed to identify the potential components of the FC-J. In a factor analysis of the FC-J, seven factors were extracted. The five subscales that were determined and labeled included Reject, Distance, Helpfulness, Closeness, and Involvement, which collectively accounted for 56.0% of the variance. Cronbach's alpha, a measure of internal consistency, for individual subscales was 0.833 for Reject, 0.763 for Distance, 0.768 for Helpfulness, 0.617 for Closeness, and 0.663 for Involvement. Notably, there was a significant correlation between the FC-J and the Nurse Attitude Scale (P < 0.0001). Moreover, one-way anova was performed with each FC-J subscale to examine differences among psychiatric diagnoses in the study sample. A significant difference was found for Involvement (P < 0.001), with the total score on Involvement being the highest in the personality disorder group. These results are considered to verify the reliability and validity of the FC-J as a scale to measure countertransference among Japanese care providers. The use of this scale allows individual care providers to recognize and be cognizant of their own countertransference objectively and thereby contributes to improve the relationship between patients and care providers.

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Exploring the gender-sensitive feelings of nurses towards residents with intimate and sexual needs in dementia nursing care

Waterschoot,

Roelofs,

van Dam

et al. 2024

Geriatric Nursing

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An analysis of the concept of countertransference

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings

Countertransference to psychiatric patients in a clinical setting: Development of the Feeling Checklist–Japanese version

Exploring the gender-sensitive feelings of nurses towards residents with intimate and sexual needs in dementia nursing care

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