Full Description
Counselling Skills for Working with Shame helps you to understand and identify shame and to build shame resilience in both the client and yourself.
Written in an accessible style, this is a hands-on, skills-based guide which helps practitioners to identify what elicits, evokes or triggers shame. It gives a general introduction to the nature of shame in both client and counsellor and how these become entwined in the therapeutic relationship. It focuses on increasing awareness of shame and how to release it in order to build shame resilience.
With points for reflection, helpful exercises, top tips, reminders and suggestions for how to work with clients, this is a highly practical guide for counsellors, therapists and related professionals.
Contents
Introduction. 1. The Language of Shame. 2. The Nature of Shame. 3. Sources of Shame. 4. The Impact of Shame. 5. Defences Against Shame . 6. Shame in Sex and Sexuality. 7. Shame, Addictions and Compulsion. 8. Shame, Violence and Abuse. 9. Shame in Therapy. 10. Skills for Working with Shame. 11. Counsellor Shame. 12. Skills for Building Shame Resilience. Appendices. References. Index.
