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- adjective That may be
idealized
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Because so many clients who come for help have not experienced validation of their feelings and experiences, have not had idealizable adults in their lives, or have not been able to share a sense of likeness with significant others, it often is important for the worker to provide a range of selfobject functions.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Additionally, he lacked mirroring and encouragement from his parents and teachers, idealizable and positive role models whom he could look up to, and those with whom he shared a sense of likeness.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Kohut believed that children exhibit a need to look to their parents as idealizable people who make them feel secure and soothed in relationship to parental perfection and power.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The absence of idealizable parents, traumatic deidealization experiences, or loss may result in weakness in the self or narcissistic vulnerability.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Kohut believed that children exhibit a need to look to their parents as idealizable people who make them feel secure and soothed in relationship to parental perfection and power.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Additionally, he lacked mirroring and encouragement from his parents and teachers, idealizable and positive role models whom he could look up to, and those with whom he shared a sense of likeness.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The individual needs to have idealizable caretakers, experiences of validation, affirmation, a sense of feeling like others, and other forms of empathic selfobject responsiveness.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The absence of idealizable parents, traumatic deidealization experiences, or loss may result in weakness in the self or narcissistic vulnerability.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Because so many clients who come for help have not experienced validation of their feelings and experiences, have not had idealizable adults in their lives, or have not been able to share a sense of likeness with significant others, it often is important for the worker to provide a range of selfobject functions.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The individual needs to have idealizable caretakers, experiences of validation, affirmation, a sense of feeling like others, and other forms of empathic selfobject responsiveness.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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