ABSTRACT This narrative is about a journey of two people in a therapy relationship who come from distinctly different social locations – on the surface, unlike one another from a social context, yet not so unlike at a deeper personal level. One person, the client, is African American, 30 years of age, poor, unmarried mother of two children. The other person, the family therapist, is a 49-year-old Caucasian male, middles class, married, of Italian/Ukrainian ancestry. At first glance, we see little in common between these two individuals who are supposed to work together in the intimate context of a therapeutic relationship. How the therapist, with his supervisor, meets these challenges from the perspective of the Person of the Therapist (POTT) framework (Aponte et al., 2009; Aponte & Kissil, 2016) about a therapist’s use of self is the subject of this article. The premise of the article is that the therapist will need to reach within himself to be able to empathically connect with her in the deep common humanity of their personal lives, while making a singular effort to expand this empathic connection to include her social location and community context

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“我也很重要”

摘要 这个叙述是关于处于治疗关系中的两个人的旅程，他们来自截然不同的社会地点——从表面上看，在社会背景下彼此不同，但在更深的个人层面上并没有那么不同。客户之一是非洲裔美国人，30 岁，贫穷，有两个孩子的未婚母亲。另一个人，家庭治疗师，是一名 49 岁的白人男性，中产阶级，已婚，有意大利/乌克兰血统。乍一看，我们认为这两个应该在治疗关系的亲密环境中一起工作的人之间几乎没有共同之处。治疗师及其主管如何从治疗师之人 (POTT) 框架的角度应对这些挑战（Aponte 等，2009；Aponte & Kissil，2016）关于治疗师对自我的使用是本文的主题。这篇文章的前提是，治疗师需要深入到自己的内心，才能在他们个人生活中深刻的共同人性中与她建立共情联系，同时做出独特的努力来扩大这种共情联系，以包括她的社会地位和社区语境