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Features of Pathogenic Beliefs in the Context of Childhood Maltreatment: Implications for Therapeutic Empathy.
- Source :
- Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education & Research; Apr-Jun2024, Vol. 94 Issue 2, p91-108, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- One reason why patients may seek therapy is to address constricting beliefs about themselves, others and the world that diminish the quality of their lives. These pathogenic beliefs interfere with the pursuit of personal goals and are often the source of considerable distress. In this paper, we discuss the perspective from Control-Mastery Theory that such beliefs were once adaptive in the context of earlier traumatic relational experience, and are often held in place by loyalties and attachment ties to important figures. Therapists can facilitate patients' efforts to disconfirm these beliefs by empathically understanding the form and function of the patient's pathogenic beliefs historically and in the present. Such understanding is termed "person empathy" and is found to contribute to positive therapeutic outcomes. With the aim of helping to facilitate therapists' empathy regarding patients' pathogenic beliefs, we describe in this paper some of the original functions and subsequent consequences of such beliefs in patients' lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
EMPATHY
EMOTION regulation
PSYCHOTHERAPY
CONTROL (Psychology)
PSYCHOLOGY of adult child abuse victims
PSYCHOTHERAPIST attitudes
ATTACHMENT behavior
CONFLICT (Psychology)
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
EXPERIENCE
PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL adjustment
SOCIAL skills
INTERPERSONAL relations
THEORY
ADVERSE childhood experiences
PATHOLOGICAL psychology
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 28376811
- Volume :
- 94
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education & Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177932440
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00377317.2023.2292995