Black Male Client, White Female Counsellor: Making Positive Use of Transference Phenomena

Examines transference issues over a nine-month period between a white, female counselor and a black, male client. Attempts to show the positive effects that may come about through a non-ethnic- and non-gender-matched, counselor-client dyad and subsequent benefits to clients of counselor similarity a...

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Published in:British journal of guidance & counselling 1996-10, Vol.24 (3), p.413-422
Main Authors: Banks, Nicholas J, Ward, Patricia A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black American people
Client Relations
Counseling
Counseling Techniques
Counsellors
Counselor Attitudes
Counselor Client Relationship
Ethnicity
Helping Relationship
Men
Mixed Sex Dyads
Opposite Sex Relations
Psychotherapy
Race
Racial Factors
Therapeutic Environment
Therapists
Transference
Transference (Psychology)
Women
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Summary:Examines transference issues over a nine-month period between a white, female counselor and a black, male client. Attempts to show the positive effects that may come about through a non-ethnic- and non-gender-matched, counselor-client dyad and subsequent benefits to clients of counselor similarity and difference. (RJM)
ISSN:0306-9885
1469-3534
DOI:10.1080/03069889600760381