What facilitates countertransference management? The roles of therapist meditation, mindfulness, and self-differentiation

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 502-513

  Fatter, Daphne M ^a   Hayes, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

process research; psychotherapist training supervision development

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84883377519     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2013.797124     Document Type: Article

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