Getting Unstuck:Practical Guidance for Counselors (eBook)

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Jon Winder (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017 | 2., edition
316 Seiten
Jon Winder, Lpc, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-9979612-1-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A therapist's worst nightmare is to get caught in the situation of not knowing how to help a client. However, counseling is the art of knowing how to respond to therapeutic situations and dilemmas and not a matter of having all the answers. This accessible and practical book, based on the author's 40 years of clinical experience, offers counselors from the student to the seasoned therapist ways to respond using over 100 unique strategies, interventions, and examples for overcoming therapeutic dilemmas, such as uncooperative clients, overwhelming problems, and damaged therapeutic relationships. Readers will learn about some of the newest therapeutic discoveries in psychotherapy as well as answers to specific difficulties submitted by other therapists. The reader is challenged to become a co-creator of change with the client opening the doors of self-discovery that turn counseling into an adventure and opportunity for personal growth for both client and counselor. This is an excellent book to use in counselor supervision giving aspiring counselors answers to many perplexing situations.You will learn: A new approach to conceptualizing the process of therapy Ways to enhance the therapeutic relationship Establishing protocols to overcome common dilemmas How to identify and maximize clients strengths 10 Characteristics of difficult clients Therapeutic qualities every therapist should have 12 Solutions for working with difficult clients How to create solutions to unsolvable problems Ways to create hope in hopeless situations How mindfulness in therapy can overcome therapeutic challenges How to expand your therapeutic tool kit. Rethinking the idea of therapeutic resistanceWith this highly readable book filled with down-to-earth advice and linked with consciousness and compassion, you will never be stuck again.

Inhalt

 Introduction, Chapter 1: Not Knowing  Chapter 2: Knowing and Change  Chapter :3 Redefining the Solution Chapter 4: Difficult Clients  Chapter 5: The Dance, Why Dance?  Chapter 6: Enhancing the Relationship Chapter 7: Empowering the Client  Chapter 8: Client or Therapist?  Chapter 9: What to Do With What You've Got   Chapter 10: No Idea What to Do   Chapter 11: Beyong Talk Therapy  Chapter 12: Responses to Questions  Epilogue

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: client resistance • Clinical supervision • compassionate counseling • counselor education • difficult clients • Mindfulness • psychotherapy • therapeutic dilemmas • Therapeutic Interventions • trauma treatment
• ISBN-10: 0-9979612-1-X / 099796121X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9979612-1-8 / 9780997961218