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Every profession has trade secrets that are passed on from one generation to the next and counseling is no exception. These cherished lessons based on wide-ranging experiences and passion for the craft are shared by masters with students and colleagues and include fresh ideas, noteworthy interventions, and even little tricks learned over time that increase both professional effectiveness and personal satisfaction. These unique practices are captured in this entertaining book that collects the wisdom of some of the most accomplished practitioners in the field, those who have been most influential in developing theoretical approaches, clinical innovations, and standards of practice. These master clinicians disclose ingenious methods and practical tips to better serve clients. Discussing techniques that have been mostly kept private until now, they talk about their creative breakthroughs, spiritual transcendences, monumental successes, and their own developmental adjustments over time. They also reveal some of their most unusual cases, disappointing failures, and disturbing deceptions, and share stories about the clients who have changed them. New practitioners and veterans alike will find innovative ways to remain fresh and engaged with clients. Because of its focus on practical knowledge and useful strategies, this book can be used as a supplemental text in a variety of introductory and advanced courses, or as an inspirational guide for experienced counselors.

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Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, is one of the most prominent authors in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, health, and education, having written more than 90 books on a wide range of subjects. Some of his most highly regarded works include On Being a Therapist; Introduction to Counseling: Voices From the Field; Learning Group Leadership; Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy; Bad Therapy; The Client Who Changed Me; Stories We’ve Heard, Stories We’ve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life; The Therapist in the Real World; On Being a Master Therapist; Relationships in Counseling and the Counselor’s Life; and Therapy Over 50.  Jeffrey has been a counselor, supervisor, and educator for 45 years, working in preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, hospital, nongovernmental organization, university, community college, private practice, and disaster relief settings. He served as a Fulbright scholar and senior lecturer in Peru and Iceland as well as worked as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nepal. Jeffrey is professor emeritus of counseling at California State University, Fullerton. He currently lives in Houston, where he works on projects related to refugee trauma and is clinical professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.   

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