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Counselling students' views and concerns about weeping with clients: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Curtis Russ,
Matise Miles,
Glass J. Scott
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733140312331384303
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , countertransference , psychology , phenomenon , psychotherapist , dimension (graph theory) , medical education , medicine , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science , pure mathematics
This study examines counselling students' concerns and views about a phenomenon that has received little attention in the counselling literature: the counsellor weeping during a session with a client. Over 20 per cent of the counselling students who were surveyed reported being concerned about weeping in session with clients. However, the majority of students believed, to varying degrees, that weeping with clients could facilitate the therapeutic process. This paper sheds light on this unexplored dimension of countertransference, and has implications for those involved in providing counsellor training.