Overview
Advice and inspiration for the real-life challenges of being a mental health professional. Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus on academic preparation, but there's a lot more that a therapist needs to know to be successful after graduation. With warmth, wisdom, and expertise, Jeffrey A. Kottler covers crucial but underaddressed challenges that therapists face in their professional lives at all levels of experience. PART I , ""More Than You Bargained For,"" covers the changing landscape of the mental health profession and the limits and merits of professional training. PART II , ""Secrets and Neglected Challenges,"" explores important issues that are often overlooked during training years, including the ways our clients become our greatest teachers, the power of storytelling, and the role of deception in psychotherapy. And in PART III , ""Ongoing Personal and Professional Development,"" Kottler focuses on areas in which even the most experienced therapists can continue to hone their talents and maximize their potential, laying out effective tips to navigate organization politics, write and publish books and articles, cultivate creativity in clinical work, maintain a private practice, present and lecture to large and small audiences, sustain passion for the work of helping others, plan for the future, and much more. As honest and inspiring as it is revealing, this book offers therapists and counselors at all levels of experience key ideas for thriving after formal education.
Full Product Details
Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler, Ph.D.
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780393710984
ISBN 10: 039371098
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 27 July 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Professional therapists, particularly those newer to their practice, will find the book highly accessible in its writing and presentation of what to expect in the therapeutic experience. Students of clinical psychology will also especially benefit from the frank analysis undertaken to explain where training falls short, why, and what to do to find greater fulfillment in the field. . . . [H]ighly recommended for those students and practitioners experiencing burnout or who are otherwise unable to receive meaningful vocational advice from mentors.
Author Information
Jeffrey A. Kottler, PhD, professor of counseling at California State University, Fullerton, is an internationally renowned therapist and author in the fields of psychology and education. He lives in Huntington Beach.
