Thomas Skovholt and Len Jennings' landmark Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling was the first book to apply qualitative methodology to the study of validly selected expert therapists. Considering the growing number of international qualitative studies on psychotherapy expertise, the authors join forces once again to provide students, academics, researchers, and practitioners with Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World. In this book, Jennings and Skovholt compile and compare, for the first time, a series of parallel studies of expertise in psychotherapy from around the world. The studies include therapist expertise research projects in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Japan, and Korea), North America (the U.S.A. and Canada), and Europe (Czech Republic and Portugal). Synthesizing and presenting common characteristics of master practitioners on a global scale, Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy is the most comprehensive description of psychotherapy expertise at the international level that has ever been conducted.

Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Skovholt, Thomas M.

Jennings, Len

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

This title focuses on the work of practitioners in counseling, therapy, teaching, and the health professions. These are all "high-touch" practitioner fields where the quality of the interaction with the client/student/patient is the key to success. To do the work well requires an optimal balance between "other-care" and "self-care." How does one acquire this balance? This book explores elements of this question by describing the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and, finally, a self-care action plan. Written for counselors, therapists or those in the health professions.

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals

Self-Help

Stress Management

Allyn&Bacon

In this book the authors paint an elaborate portrait of expert or 'master' therapists. The book contains extensive qualitative research conducted over a seven-year period on the same ten master therapists. This intensive research project on master therapists, those considered the 'best of the best' by their colleagues, will appeal to mental health providers, counselor/therapist training programs, and researchers seeking to understand more fully optimal therapist development. Research on experienced, let alone expert, therapists and counselors is extremely rare. There are just a handful of studies utilizing therapists at this high level of professional development. Rarer still in the counseling and psychotherapy research literature is the depth of the focus resulting from the multiple and longitudinal studies reflected in this book. Such a rich description of expert therapists and counselors can help inform mental health practitioners, as well as therapist training programs, of the ways of masters—therapists considered to be operating at the highest level of the profession— and be used as potential guidelines for their own professional development. Mental health providers, counselor/therapist training programs, and researchers.

Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling

Therapists and other helping professionals, such as teachers, doctors and nurses, social workers, and clergy, work in highly demanding fields and can suffer from burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary stress. This happens when they give more attention to their clients’ well being than their own. Both students and practitioners in these fields will find this book an essential guide to striking an optimal balance between self-care and other-care. The authors describe the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and a self-care action plan. Vivid real-life examples and self-reflection questions will engage and motivate readers to think about their own work and ways to enhance their own resilience. Eloquently written and supported by extensive research, helping professionals will find this a valuable resource both when a novice and when an experienced practitioner.

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition

Trotter-Mathison, Michelle

Mental Health

Routledge

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition ... Historical, and Cultural Perspectives)

Praise for Becoming a Therapist "This resource is filled with practical and personal advice, relevant stories, and examples, and reads more like help from a friend than a typical textbook." ―Roberta L. Nutt, PhD, ABPP, Visiting Professor and Training Director, Counseling Psychology Program, University of Houston "Ah, now this is the book I wish had been available when I entered the field. Tom Skovholt has defined the initial experiences and followed the process through to the culmination of the therapeutic experience in a truly great book. Becoming a Therapist is a major contribution to our field." ―Arthur (Andy) M. Horne, Dean and Distinguished Research Professor, College of Education, The University of Georgia; President-Elect, Society of Counseling Psychology "Becoming a Therapist's informal style is accessible and engaging and yet soundly grounded in evidence and in the wisdom Skovholt has developed through his career-long research on psychotherapists and their development." ―Rodney K. Goodyear, PhD, Professor, School of Education, University of Redlands; Emeritus Professor of Education (Counseling Psychology), University of Southern California Essential guidance for mental health professionals navigating the start of their helping careers Written for those entering a career in the helping professions, Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery explores the therapeutic career path for new practitioners, painting a vivid portrait of the novice therapist's journey. This practical book guides you in using the helping relationship to improve the lives of others, whether your chosen profession is in counseling, clinical psychology, social work, school counseling, addictions counseling, family therapy, medicine, community counseling, pastoral counseling, or academic advising. Destined to become the resource every new practitioner turns to again and again, Becoming a Therapist prepares you for the reality of what it means to be a beginning therapist, with relevant discussion of: <ul>
<li>The fifteen indispensable qualities of every mental health professional</li> <li>The unfolding practitioner self</li> <li>Self-care for burnout prevention and resiliency development</li> <li>The importance of culturally competent practice to practitioner expertise</li> <li>Practice, research/theory, and personal life: the practitioner's learning triangle</li> <li>The significance of peer relationships in the novice experience</li> </ul>
Steeped in author Thomas Skovholt's years of experience, Becoming a Therapist thoroughly and clearly illustrates the excitement, intensity, anxiety―and, ultimately, the satisfaction―you can expect as a helping professional.

Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery

wiley

The Evolving Professional Self: Stages and Themes in Therapist and Counselor Development (Wiley Series in Psychotherapy and Counselling)

Offers a research-based comprehensive view of professional development founded on the systematic examination of therapists and counselors during the growth and development of their careers. The authors describe the stages and themes involved in understanding what it means to become a professional counselor or therapist.

Rønestad, Michael Helge

Offers a research-based comprehensive view of professional development founded on the systematic examination of therapists and counselors during the growth and development of their careers. The authors describe the stages and themes involved in understanding what it means to become a professional counselor or therapist.

Providing a guide for beginning counselors, this work gives the techniques to use in clinical situations. It shows characteristics of good helping relationships; details verbal and nonverbal skills; includes evaluation and ethics; explains helping theories and research; and explores client concerns.

Skills and Strategies for the Helping Professions

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Love Publishing Co.

The Resilient Practitioner

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Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals

Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition

The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Second Edition ... Historical, and Cultural Perspectives)

Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery

The Evolving Professional Self: Stages and Themes in Therapist and Counselor Development (Wiley Series in Psychotherapy and Counselling)

The Evolving Professional Self: Stages and Themes in Therapist and Counselor Development (Wiley Series in Psychotherapy and Counselling)

Skills and Strategies for the Helping Professions

The Resilient Practitioner