Jeffrey A. Kottler

Since it was first published in 1986, On Being a Therapist has become a classic book in the field and has proved to be one of the most inspiring sources of guidance for aspiring and seasoned practitioners alike. Jeffrey Kottler provides a candid account of the profound ways in which therapists influence clients and, in turn, are impacted personally and professionally by these encounters. He shows how therapists can learn, develop, and grow during the process of therapy and explains how practitioners can use the professional skills and insights gained from their sessions to address their own personal issues, realize positive change in themselves, and so become better helpers for others. This thoroughly revised edition includes discussion about how the business and practice of therapy has changed in recent years, the effects of technology and managed care, the breakdown of theoretical orientation, and the greater client diversity represented in contemporary practice.

On Being a Therapist

Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus onacademic preparation, but there's a lot more that a therapist needs toknow to be successful after graduation. With warmth, wisdom, and expertise,Jeffrey A. Kottler covers crucial but underaddressed challenges that therapistsface in their professional lives at all levels of experience.

What You Never Learn in Graduate School (but Really Need to Know)

The Therapist in the Real World

Discusses why it is difficult for people to make lasting changes in life, why some people are more successful at change than others, and includes true stories of transformation in people's lives.

What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation

Change

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David S. Shepard

INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING: VOICES FROM THE FIELD, Eighth Edition, provides students with a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession while encouraging them to examine the day-to-day realities of being a counselor and their motivation for choosing the profession. Coverage includes information on what counseling is as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. As students become engaged in the process of learning and applying counseling concepts, they get an unparalleled look at what their professional futures may hold. Voices from the Field sections in each chapter offer further insight into the real challenges faced by experienced practitioners, as well as the ways in which those challenges were resolved. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Introduction to Counseling: Voices from the Field

This fifth edition of 'On Being a Therapist' continues to explore many of the challenges that therapists face in their practices today, although it expands from previous editions in that it features new research and clinical experience, shares new stories, and adds material centered on technology.

Jon Carlson

Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases

The Mummy at the Dining Room Table

A unique study explains why people cry, how crying is treated in different cultures, when crying is therapeutic and when it is destructive, the evolutionary purpose of tears, and the neuropsychology of crying. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

The Language of Tears

Learn from master therapists and bring your skills to the next level Bringing a breath of fresh air to the therapy profession, this compelling and thoughtful resource urges readers to move from competency to full mastery in the mental health field. Combining the findings of hundreds of previous studies, interviews with a wide range of master therapists, own unique experiences and perspectives, Jeffery A. Kottler and Jon Carlson have devised a guide that takes therapists out of their comfort zones. Professionals in the fields of psychology, counseling, social work, and human services, as well as graduate students studying for these professions, will find a level of honesty and candor in this resource, which tackles a range of essential topics in a frank, personal tone, and closes with a meaningful discussion about the challenges of striving for mastery. Master therapists and authors Kottler and Carlson explore a range of hot-button topics, such as: Cultural misunderstandings Disliking your clients (or having clients dislike you) Receiving negative feedback from clients Injecting creativity into the therapeutic process Finding time for social justice and advocacy On Being a Master Therapist provides a much-needed look at a range of topics that aren't often given such genuine and insightful treatment, with the goal of helping you attain the attributes that truly distinguish excellence in clinical practice. Start on your journey toward mastery with this thoughtful resource.

Practicing What You Preach

On Being a Master Therapist

Matt Englar-Carlson

"Slacktivism" is a term that has been coined to cynically describe the token efforts that people devote to some cause, without long-term or meaningful impact. We wear colored wristbands, pins, or ribbons proclaiming support for a particular organization. We might post something on social network sites or send messages to friends about causes dear to our hearts. We might even volunteer our time to work on behalf of marginalized, oppressed, or neglected groups—or donate money to a charity. Yet the key feature of significant social action is follow through—continuing efforts over a period of time so as to build meaningful relationships, provide adequate support, and conduct evaluations to measure results and make needed adjustments that make programs even more responsive. This book is intended as an inspiration for practicing psychotherapists and counselors, as well as students, to become actively involved in a meaningful effort. The authors have searched far and wide to identify practitioners representing different disciplines, helping professions, geographic regions, and social action projects, all of whom have been involved in social justice efforts for some time, whether in their own communities or in far-flung regions of the world. Each of them has an amazing story to tell that reveals the challenges they’ve faced, the incredible satisfactions they’ve experienced, and what lessons they’ve learned along the way. Each story represents a gem of wisdom, revealing both questions of faith, as well as of sustained action. The authors have been encouraged to dig deeply in order to talk about the honest realities of their work. After reading their stories, you will be ready to pick a cause that speaks to you and begin your own work.

Therapists Involved in Meaningful Social Action

Helping Beyond the 50-Minute Hour

Leah Brew

With its practical, experiential approach, the Second Edition of Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers to look at every situation differently and draw from their embedded knowledge to best serve the individuals in their care. Authors Leah Brew and Jeffrey A. Kottler weave humor and passion into their engaging prose, effectively conveying their excitement and satisfaction for doing helping work.

Transforming Lives

Applied Helping Skills

A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people's lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and skills of helping methods. It is designed as an operating manual for those in human service professions to learn the basics involved in developing helping relationships, assessing and diagnosing complaints, promoting exploration and understanding, and designing and implementing action plans. Key Features Offers a brief introduction to the helping process: Written in an accessible and conversational style, this book helps students and professionals become familiar with the basic process quickly. Provides personal applications: This book helps students enrich their lives while learning how to be more helpful to others. Includes applications to a variety of settings and disciplines: Students can actually use material and skills in the book in all the various domains in which they function—at work, in volunteer agencies, with friends and family. Uses an integrative approach: The best features of all major theories and research are combined into a unified model of helping that is responsive to different needs. Intended Audience This supplemental text is ideal for introductory undergraduate and graduate courses such as Introduction to Social Work, Introduction to Counseling, and Introduction to Human Services in the fields of counseling, psychology, human services, social work, education, family studies, marital and family therapy, pastoral work, nursing, human resource development, and other helping professions. It is also an excellent resource for beginning practitioners.

A Brief Primer of Helping Skills

Change is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never escape our self-destructive behaviors, even when we desperately want to? What is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning, and development that persist over time? In this vividly written volume, psychotherapist Jeffrey Kottler weaves together inspiring stories and the latest research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behavior while highlighting what does--and does not--lead to lasting change. Kottler illuminates our many efforts to change--to stop taking drugs, reduce dependencies, leave a destructive relationship, find new and more meaningful work, or adjust to a devastating accident or trauma. Readers are invited to explore key triggers such as hitting bottom, moments of clarity, the power of altruism and service, travel to new surroundings, reading or listening to stories, religious conversion, and much more. Kottler also explores why most changes don't last and what we can do to prevent relapses. Throughout the book, Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients--and even recalls episodes from his own life-often moving tales of remarkable, unexpected, and lasting transformation. He looks, for instance, at a young black basketball star, confined to a wheelchair for life after being shot four times, who turned his life around, becoming a scholar and a PhD. An intriguing glimpse into the complexity of the human psyche, Change will engage anyone who has ever struggled to alter a habit, enrich relationships, recover from disappointment or failure, strive for more meaningful and productive work, deal with anxiety, loneliness, fears, stress, and depression, or transform their lives in any kind of significant way.

Marilyn J. Montgomery

A concise, hands-on, and experiential text that helps readers understand and apply theory in counseling and psychotherapy Through a unique approach that makes understanding theories in counseling and psychotherapy fun, stimulating, and personally meaningful, this fully updated Second Edition helps students comprehend the various and complex theories, apply the material to their own lives (through the use of the reflective exercises in every chapter) and internalize the content of the course. The book's three-part structure includes an introductory section that provides the background necessary for understanding the theories, a middle section that discusses the main theory "families," and a final section that focuses on synthesis and application. Throughout the text, the authors seek to surprise readers with the best of the past, excite them with the vitality of the present, and prepare them for their futures as therapists.

An Experiential Approach

Theories of Counseling and Therapy

Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss their mistakes, misjudgements, and miscalculations on working with clients. Told through narratives, the failures are related with candor to expose the human side of leading therapists. Each therapist shares with regrets, what they learned from the experience, what others can learn from their mistakes, and the benefits of speaking openly about bad therapy.

Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures

Bad Therapy

Therapy Over 50 discusses how psychotherapy is different for both the therapist and client after the age of fifty. The text deals with the inevitable and unrelenting changes that take place along with the corresponding lost dreams. It provides both hope and help for those elderly therapists and their clients.

Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life

Therapy Over 50

William N. Bender

David A. Sousa

Donna Walker Tileston

Neal A. Glasgow

Joanne Wachter Ghio

Jill A. Lindberg

Martha L. Thurlow

Paul Zionts

Randi Stone

Dominic Belmonte

Lisa Maria Burke

Rebecca Lynn Wilke

Kathleen Feeney Jonson

Pamela Fannin Wilkinson

Harriet Arnold

John M. Vitto

Robert L. Wyatt III

Lee Brattland Nielsen

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Este es un libro sobre el papel de la pasion en la experiencia humana. Hay lagrimas de ira, de dolor, de tristeza, de desesperacion, de alivio, de orgullo, de extasis, de felicidad... Pero, como se llega a dominar ese lenguaje? Como se interpretan las lagrimas en las distintas culturas y a traves de la historia? Por que algunas personas lloran con mucha mayor facilidad que otras? Y lo mas importante de todo: que nos dicen las lagrimas sobre la esencia de la naturaleza humana? De la oftalmologia a la neurologia, de la antropologia a la psicologia, de la novela y el cine al trabajo social, el presente libro utiliza una amplia gama de disciplinas para responder a todas esas preguntas. Y lo hace a partir de tres supuestos basicos: Hay que comprender el significado de las lagrimas, entendidas como metafora de los sentimientos. Hay que sentir los mensajes que quieren enviarnos, su sentido emocional. Y hay que reflexionar sobre todo ello, con el fin de mejorar nuestras relaciones con nosotros mismos y con los demas. En las paginas de esta obra, asi, el lector tendra la oportunidad unica no solo de mirar en su propio interior, sino tambien de saber por fin que han estado intentado comunicarle los demas durante toda su vida.

El lenguaje de las lagrimas

In Private Moments, Secret Selves, Dr. Kottler explores the meaning of the ways in which we spend our private time and how these moments can be cultivated to yield extraordinary riches; and offers us the greatest gift--the gift of ourselves--as we learn to become more comfortable, creative and productive in our uses of solitude.

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