100282: Moving Beyond The Comfort Zone in Psychotherapy

About the Course:

This book takes the reader through a process of coping with difficult moments in treatment. Using her own clinical experience, the author describes examples of sexual or angry feelings and ways to understand countertransference responses that facilitate the therapeutic process. In the final chapter, she also addresses ways that misuse of authority can inhibit the learning process.

Author

Nancy Bridges

About the Author:

Nancy A. Bridges, LICSW, BCD; Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance; Associate Clinical Professor at Smith College School for Social Work; Private Practice, Belmont, Mass.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers, psychologists, counselors, and nurses who seek knowledge about intervention strategies. It is appropriate for introductory to intermediate levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand projective identification, enactment, and the third from a relational perspective.

2. Understand and formulate enactments from a relational developmental perspective.

3. Understand the concept of boundaries and boundary violations from an intrapsychic and interpersonal perspective.

4. Understand the use of a relational perspective in the supervisory relationship.