The Therapist's Workbook E-Book

Jeffrey A. Kottler

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 179

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well-being? Filled with self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, this timely book helps clinicians help themselves with coverage of career threatening issues, such as fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of autonomy that many clinician's experience as a result of managed care and its constraints.

Leseprobe

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Confronting the Issues

Chapter 1: On Being a Therapist—and the Consequences of This Choice

Why You Became a Therapist

Consequences of Being a Therapist

Stages of Growth and Transformation

Review

Chapter 2: Joys and Privileges of Therapeutic Work

Joys and Satisfactions

Chapter 3: Identifying Sources of Stress

Sources of Stress in a Therapist’s Life

Sources of Stress from Clinical Work

Assessing the Hazards

Therapist Impairment

Looking Back

Chapter 4: Acknowledging Doubts, Limitations, and Failures

Clients Disowning Failure

You Couldn’t Help

How Failure Helps

Processing Failures

Coming to Terms with Disappointments and Failures

Future Resolutions

Chapter 5: Clients as Teachers: Reciprocal Effects and Influences

Novelty

Being Witness to Profound Change

Experiencing Transcendent Empathy

Drama and Emotional Arousal

Captivating Client’s Narratives

Triggered Into a Personal Crisis

Looking Back

Chapter 6: Making Sense of What You Do as a Therapist

The Mysteries of Therapy

Major Shifts in the Field

Secrets of the Profession

Mutual Trust in Therapeutic Relationships

Part II: Taking Care of Yourself

Chapter 7: Addressing Countertransference and Other Personal Reactions

Signs of Countertransference

Processing Countertransference Reactions

Getting Unstuck with the Help of a Partner

Looking Back

When Therapists Act Out

Further Work

Chapter 8: Avoiding and Countering Burnout

Things You Can Do

Resolving to Act

Chapter 9: Travel That Can Change Your Life

Change Through Travel

Planning for the Future

Chapter 10: Building and Maintaining a Support System

Inventory of Relationships

Pushing People Away

An Action Plan

Watching Your Support Group in Action

Time to Act

Part III: Practicing What You Preach

Chapter 11: Accessing More Fun and Joy From Therapeutic Work

Taking Risks

Favorite Techniques

Uses of the Self

Creating Joy

Chapter 12: Promoting Creative Breakthroughs

What It Takes to Become More Creative

Thinking Outside the Box

About the Author

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INTRODUCTION

It has long been my fervent belief that one of the most remarkable privileges of being a therapist is that we have so many opportunities to grow and learn as a result of our therapeutic work. When I first conceived the idea for this workbook, it was to create a structure for myself to help make sense of everything I was processing as a result of my interactions with clients (and colleagues). Throughout most of my career I have searched for as many ways as are available to apply to myself what I learn with and from my clients. This means being continuously reflective, not only about the clinical work itself, but also how it impacts and influences me personally. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t learn something significant about myself; often this is the result of being challenged by clients, students, and supervisees who ask me, in so many ways, whether I truly practice what I preach in my own life.