Culture and Countertransference inTrauma counselling with Refugees

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Culture and Countertransference in Trauma counselling with Refugees
Ms Deborah Gould

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Assuming that a large part of what is therapeutic in individual counselling or psychotherapy relates to our ability to form and sustain an empathic connection with the client, this presentation aims to explore those issues that intrude on this process. This will be explored in the light of the complex interaction of cultural difference and refugee trauma and the impact of these dynamics on our capacity to be attuned to the client. These responses are seen in a framework of counter transference – the intersubjective process of a therapist responding not only to the present truth of the client, but also to what the client draws in us.

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Recorded at the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
November 2007, New South Wales, Australia.
Visit STARTTS at : www.STARTTS.org.au

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	Culture and Countertransference in Trauma counselling with Refugees	Deborah Gould	26'28

Ms Deborah Gould

Deborah Gould is a Clinical Psychologist, trained in South Africa in the 1980s. She worked in various contexts between qualifying in 1988 and migrating to Australia in 1997. This included 4 years of lecturing and supervision at the University of Cape Town, 10 years in a psychotherapy practice and 4 years providing assessment, psychotherapy and clinical supervision in a large Community Mental Health Service in Soweto.

Since moving to Australia in 1998, she has worked at the Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS), as a Clinical Psychologist and clinical supervisor. The model used is short term and focussed on the reduction of the impacts of the trauma of war, torture, loss and resettlement and acculturation on people’s wellbeing. In her role as a Clinical Supervisor over the past 9 years, she has been involved in reflection on and treatment of a great number and variety of refugee clients. It is from here that she draws most of her inspiration and knowledge for this presentation.