Assignment task: Debbie a middle age office assistant has discovered that she has cancer. She has requested the counselling services to deal with her depression and anxiety after the diagnosis. She has little money, poor salary, her kids are in teens and her boy friend does not work. She is thinking about various options such as fraud, robbing a bank, selling drug. She seems to be serious to at least do one of the aforementioned options to leave her children with lots of money, as Debbie is not hopeful to survive the cancer.
Question: Ken is Debbie's therapist. Ken's wife had also suffered from Cancer and had shown same depression symptoms like Debbie. Ken also suffered emotionally while taking care of his wife during her cancer treatment.
Now Debbie has come with the same case.
A: Identify challenges and potential counter transference that Ken may face
B: Discuss ways that Ken can use to overcome these challenges and counter transference