Dysfunctional families call care managers in the summer. Why? During the summer adult children visit their parents because of national holidays, family reunions, and trips to their parents’ homes or summer houses with entitled seniors. When Dysfunctional family members call you because they are appalled frightened or both as they find their parents have deteriorated or are alone in boiling heat from climate change- beware of countertransference. What’s that? When working with difficult aging families, aging professionals and geriatric care managers experience strong negative feelings and intense reactions this experience is called countertransference where the therapist develops an intense emotional reaction to the patient.
Many health and family professionals come from dysfunctional families themselves. So it is important foraging professionals and geriatric care managers to acknowledge and understand any countertransference reactions to develop an effective strategy for intervention. Which types of emotional reactions might an aging professional experience in dealing with a difficult aging family?
· Intense dislike of family members
· Condescension toward client or family
· Impatience with family decision making
· Arguing with clients or family members
· Avoiding necessary contact with clients or family
· Becoming paternalistic, for example, taking over decisions that should be made by family
· Becoming passive-aggressive, for example, the GCM does not follow through with her own recommendations.
is important that an aging professional working with a dysfunctional family, has 5 years of experience with difficult families, training in family systems, and an education that covers countertransference.
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The rich “They are not like you and me” said Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby.
Every family must deal with life’s most important events- birth, marriage, aging, and death. Dealing with aging and the succession of the head of the family is a struggle for all families but it can overwhelming and destructive with the dysfunctional family, marked by strained relationships