Therapist Self-Care and Going Through Their Own Therapy Process: A Review Study from an Ethical Perspective

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 12 Sayı: 2, 190 - 210, 31.05.2025

Fatma Nur Demirbaş , Feride Tuğçe Parlak , İlayda Etkin Güler Erdil , İlknur Şen , Rümeysa Demir , Yasemin Kahya

https://doi.org/10.31682/ayna.1497617

Öz

Self-care includes a series of actions such as exercising, eating healthy, developing social relationships, coping with stress, and realizing one’s personal potential to ensure that one’s body, mind, and emotions are in balance. This is a lifestyle in which a person makes a conscious effort and commitment to continuously support their own health and well-being, aiming to improve all aspects of their life. This review focuses on self-care and the effects of therapists undergoing their own psychotherapy processes, which is an important component of self-care, on their personal and professional development within the framework of ethical codes. In this context, the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, the Canadian Psychological Association’s Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, the Canadian Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy’s Code of Ethics, the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations’ (EFPA) Meta-Code of Ethics, the International Union of Psychological Sciences’ Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists, and the Turkish Psychologists Association’s Ethics Codes were examined. It seems important for therapists to undergo their own psychotherapy processes regarding their professional competence and ethical responsibilities. Research has examined both the positive and negative effects of therapists’ therapy experiences. As a result, it is understood that psychology and clinical psychology programs should have content that emphasizes self-care as an ethical principle and practice, that research and practices that increase therapists’ self-care awareness should be developed, and that therapists can go through their own psychotherapy process as a way of self-care. It is also suggested that therapists going through their own psychotherapy processes can be accepted in principle within the framework of the responsibility they feel towards their profession.

Anahtar Kelimeler

self-care , ethics , therapist self-care , personal therapy , ethical regulations

Terapistin Öz-Bakımı ve Kendi Terapi Sürecinden Geçmesi: Etik Bakış Açısı ile Bir Derleme Çalışması

Öz

Öz-bakım, kişinin bedeninin, zihninin ve duygularının dengede olmasını sağlamak için egzersiz yapmak, sağlıklı beslenmek, sosyal ilişkiler geliştirmek, stresle başa çıkmak ve kişisel potansiyelini gerçekleştirmek gibi bir dizi eylemi içerir. Bu, kişinin kendi sağlığını ve iyi oluş halini sürekli olarak desteklemek için bilinçli bir çaba ve bağlılık gösterdiği, yaşamını tüm yönleriyle iyileştirmeyi amaçlayan bir yaşam tarzıdır. Bu derlemede, öz-bakıma ve öz-bakımın önemli bir bileşeni olan terapistlerin kendi psikoterapi süreçlerinden geçmelerinin kişisel ve profesyonel gelişimleri üzerindeki etkilerine etik kodlar çerçevesinde odaklanılmıştır. Bu bağlamda; Amerikan Psikoloji Derneği’nin Psikologların Etik İlkeleri ve Davranış Kuralları, Kanada Psikoloji Derneği’nin Psikologlar için Kanada Etik Yönetmeliği, Kanada Danışmanlık ve Psikoterapi Derneği’nin Etik Yönetmeliği, Avrupa Psikologlar Dernekleri Federasyonu’nun Dernekler Üstü Etik Yönetmeliği, Uluslararası Psikoloji Bilimleri Birliği’nin Psikologlar için Evrensel Etik İlkeler Bildirgesi ve Türk Psikologlar Derneği’nin Etik Yönetmeliği incelenmiştir. Terapistlerin kendi psikoterapi süreçlerinden geçmesi, mesleki yetkinlikleri ve etik sorumlulukları açısından önemli görünmektedir. Araştırmalar, terapistlerin terapi deneyimlerinin hem olumlu hem de olumsuz etkilerini incelemiştir. Sonuç olarak, psikoloji ve klinik psikoloji programlarının, öz-bakımı bir etik ilke ve uygulama olarak ön plana çıkaran bir içerik taşıması, terapistlerin öz-bakım farkındalıklarını artıran araştırmalar ve uygulamaların geliştirilmesi ve bir öz-bakım yolu olarak terapistin kendi psikoterapi sürecinden geçebileceği anlaşılmaktadır. Ayrıca, terapistlerin kendi psikoterapi süreçlerinden geçmelerinin, mesleklerine duydukları sorumluluk çerçevesinde ilkesel olarak kabul edilebileceği önerilmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

öz-bakım , etik , terapistin öz-bakımı , psikoterapi , etik yönetmelikler

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