Specific skills and knowledge are essential for a social worker working with children. Understanding transference and countertransference is crucial to a healthy therapeutic relationship. Both transference and countertransference can be evident in any clienttherapist relationship, but are especially important in working with children because of a common instinct among adults to protect and nurture the young. The projection or relocation of ones feelings about one person onto another, otherwise known as transference, is a common response by children (Gil, 1991). Countertransference, a practitioners own emotional response to a child, is also common.For this Discussion, review the Malawista (2004) article (attached). Post your explanation why transference and countertransference are so common when working with children. Then, identify some strategies you might use to address both transference and countertransference in your work with children.· Support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references. Should be at least 150 words and contain at least 1 reference and 1 citation.
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