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All therapists experience reactions toward clients, which have traditionally been called countertransference. Such reactions toward families pose special issues for beginning and developing family therapists. This clinically based and clinically oriented article describes some of the reactions, clues pointing to their existence, and indicates some of the ways beginning and developing family therapists and their supervisors and consultants can deal constructively with these reactions.
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Halperin, S.M. Countertransference and the developing family therapist: Treatment and supervision issues. Contemp Fam Ther 13, 127–141 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00890871
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