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Countertransference Issues in Adolescent Residential Settings

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Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy

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This paper discusses the countertransference (CT) issues among clinicians and nonclinicians in adolescent residential settings. The special context of adolescent residential settings related to the intensity of the developmental issues and psychopathology of the residents is described. Discussion follows regarding the CT responses of identification, disidentification, blunders, competition, repression, displacement, splitting, projective identification, control, and authority. Recommendations are made for how to use internal or external consultants to assist multidisciplinary treatment teams in exploring and working through CT responses.

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Stone, D.T. Countertransference Issues in Adolescent Residential Settings. Journal of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy 11, 147–157 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014762507428

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