Becoming a Therapist: On the Path to Mastery

All practitioners start with the novice voyage involving excitement, intensity, anxiety, and challenge. A good beginning increases the chance for maximum professional functioning in later years. Becoming a Therapist explores the intense experiences of developing counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals, and helps them understand how their own emergent needs and internal processes affect their ability to help current or future clients. Blending theory and technique with many novel ideas, the book focuses on the experience of those who are new to the field rather than simply focusing on development of specific skills.

Spis treści:
1. Opening up Your Life to the Excitement of the Helping Professions.
2. Novice Advantages.
3. The Curse of Ambiguity, Other Ills and What to Do About Them.
4. Who Am I Becoming? The Unfolding Practitioner Self.
5. Developing Habits of Culturally Competent Practice (Michael Goh, Michael Starkey, A. Yang and Thomas Skovholt).
6. Issues, Concerns and Tips for the Novice Practitioner: Antidotes to Novice Stress.
7. Becoming a Resilient Practitioner.
8. Worlds Apart—The Academic Research Culture vs. the Culture of Practice and the Search for Common Space.
9. The Three–Legged Practitioner′s Learning Stool: Practice, Theory /Research, Personal Life (Thomas Starkey and Michael Starkey).
10. Themes and Phases in Counselor and Therapist Development (Thomas Skovholt and Michael Helge Ronnestad).
11. Mastery and Expertise (Thomas Skovholt and Len Jennings).
12. The Cycle of Caring: Essence of the Work (Thomas Skovholt and Michelle Trotter).
13. The Holding World of Supervisors, Mentors and Peers.
14. The Enormous Meaning of the Work.
Appendix A. Methodology for the Minnesota Counselor and Therapist Development Research Study and Methodology for the Minnesota Master Therapist Research Study.
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