For Mental Health Professionals:

• Develop a fresh, positive approach to the clinical experience.
   
• Understand your own motives within the caregiving relationship.
   
• Experience the deep caregiving pleasure of helping a client develop a conflict-free, stable sense of self within the therapeutic relationship.
   
• Understand clients'' confusing and negative interactions and withdrawal from the therapeutic process.
   
• Avoid burnout and maintain a stable self-esteem and professional sense of self when working with challenging clients or in difficult work environments.