Description
For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals (and their clients) to explore the most private, confusing, and sacred aspects of helping others. In this thoroughly revised and updated sixth edition, Jeffrey Kottler explores many of the challenges that therapists face in their practices today, including pressures from increased technology, economic realities, and advances in theory and technique. He also examines the stress factors that are brought on from managed care bureaucracy, conflicts at work, and clients' own anxiety and depression. This new edition includes updated sources, new material on technology, new challenges that therapists face as a result of the global pandemic, and an emphasis on teletherapy and navigating ethics and practice logistics remotely. Generations of students and practitioners in counseling, psychology, social work, psychotherapy, marriage and family therapy, and human services have found comfort, support, and renewed confidence in On Being a Therapist, and this sixth edition builds upon this solid foundation as it continues to educate, inform, and inspire helping professionals everywhere.
Table of Contents
About the AuthorPreface1. The Therapist's Journey2. Struggles for Power and Influence3. Personal and Professional Lives4. On Being a Therapeutic Storyteller- and Listener5. How Clients Change Their Therapists6. Hardships of Therapeutic Practice7. Being Imperfect, Living with Failure8. Patients Who Test Our Patience9. Boredom and Burnout10. That Which Is Not Said: Myths and Secrets11. Lies We Tell Ourselves- and Others12. Self-Care Prospects and Realities: Becoming Models for Our Clients13. Alternative Therapies for Therapists14. Toward Creativity and Personal Growth15. On Being a Client: How to Get the Most from TherapyDiscussion QuestionsReferencesName IndexSubject Index
