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To examine whether therapist trainees' meditation experience, mindfulness, and self-differentiation facilitate supervisor-rated countertransference management qualities.

May 30, 2013Psychotherapy Research

What facilitates countertransference management? The roles of therapist meditation, mindfulness, and self-differentiation

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To examine whether therapist trainees' meditation experience, mindfulness, and self-differentiation facilitate supervisor-rated countertransference management qualities.
Survey of N=78 therapist trainees assessing meditation experience, mindfulness facets, and self-differentiation.
Clinical supervisors rated trainees' countertransference management qualities.
Trainees' meditation experience significantly predicted countertransference management qualities.
The non-reactivity facet of mindfulness was significantly related to countertransference management qualities.
Trainee self-differentiation did not predict countertransference management qualities.

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Observational study finds enhanced countertransference management in meditating therapist trainees, suggesting that mindful non-reactivity strengthens clinical care.

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Fatter et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1bdedc5b8f4ede65a92be3 https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.797124

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Observational study finds enhanced countertransference management in meditating therapist trainees, suggesting that mindful non-reactivity strengthens clinical care.

What facilitates countertransference management? The roles of therapist meditation, mindfulness, and self-differentiation

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What facilitates countertransference management? The roles of therapist meditation, mindfulness, and self-differentiation

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