Unethical Diagnosing (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
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January 12, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | This is the psychology of Seattle. |
| 0:03.8 | Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:08.8 | I am chair of the Couple and Family Therapy program at Antioch Seattle, |
| 0:12.9 | and I'm also a licensed psychotherapist. |
| 0:16.1 | Okay, so I thought I would read a question or just a comment from a supervisee of mine. |
| 0:22.1 | She said this was a while back. |
| 0:25.0 | I have a worksheet that they fill out. |
| 0:28.0 | And so here we go. |
| 0:30.8 | The supervisee, who I will remain anonymous for her sake, she says that she had a family session and she was talking about, |
| 0:43.4 | let's see, I'll do, do it, so basically what happened was on this worksheet, I asked people |
| 0:49.8 | to discuss a moment of countertransference that they had recently. |
| 1:02.5 | And she said that she had a family session, and the family started talking about the parents fighting, |
| 1:08.0 | meaning the parents, you know, the mother and the father were in conflict. |
| 1:10.1 | They were talking about a story. |
| 1:15.1 | So the family's in session, and one of the children is like, yeah, my mom and my dad were fighting, and it was really horrible, da-da-da. |
| 1:18.2 | And because of the history of this therapist, this triggered countertransference in her, |
| 1:26.4 | and it caused her brain to freeze up she said |
| 1:31.3 | and then she was unable to really address anything new in that session because she had been |
| 1:38.7 | triggered and she had to contemplate it get supervision get consultation, and then come back to the issues in the |
| 1:46.0 | next session. So this is a very wise thing for this therapist to write and to notice about herself. |
| 1:56.0 | We all have our issues in our past, and they will undoubtedly get triggered many times by our clients |
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