Compassionate Therapy explores the characteristics of difficult clients. Arguing that resistance and conflict can be a constructive force, Kottler shows how practitioners can use these struggles to examine their own abilities, deepen their compassion, and improve therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness.
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Compassionate Therapy explores the characteristics of difficult clients and the nature of client resistance. Arguing that conflict can be a constructive force, it shows how practitioners can use the struggle to examine their own abilities, deepen their compassion, and improve therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness. It offers proven approaches to working through therapeutic impasses with difficult clients and blAnds professional development with personal growth.
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Compassionate Therapy explores the characteristics of difficult clients. Arguing that resistance and conflict can be a constructive force, Kottler shows how practitioners can use these struggles to examine their own abilities, deepen their compassion, and improve therapeutic flexibility and effectiveness.
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Jeffrey A. Kottler has authored over 65 books in the field for counselors, therapists, teachers, and the public, including COMPASSIONATE THERAPY: WORKING WITH DIFFICULT CLIENTS; ON BEING A THERAPIST; COUNSELORS FINDING THEIR WAY; MAKING CHANGES LAST; COUNSELING SKILLS FOR TEACHERS; DIVINE MADNESS: TEN STORIES OF CREATIVE STRUGGLE; BAD THERAPY: MASTER THERAPISTS SHARE THEIR WORST FAILURES; THE CLIENT WHO CHANGED ME: STORIES OF THERAPIST PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION; and THE MUMMY AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE: EMINENT THERAPISTS REVEAL THEIR MOST UNUSUAL CASES AND WHAT THEY TEACH US ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in a preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, community college, and private practice. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru and Iceland, teaching counseling theory and practice. He has also served as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Nepal. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton.
Jeffrey has worked as a teacher, counselor, and therapist in a preschool, middle school, mental health center, crisis center, university, community college, and private practice. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru and Iceland, teaching counseling theory and practice. He has also served as a visiting professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Nepal. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton.
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A must-have addition to your reference library!!!,
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This review is from: Compassionate Therapy: Working with Difficult Clients (Jossey-Bass Social & Behavioral Science) (Hardcover)
If you are a beginning or experienced therapist, you won't find a better wake up and reminder call to client and therapist care than Jeffrey Kottler provides. Easily readable, refreshingly honest, this book offers experienced insights into therapist/client interaction which are liberating to say the least. Not only did I benefit greatly from reading this book, but best of all, so did my difficult clients.
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This review is from: Compassionate Therapy: Working with Difficult Clients (Jossey-Bass Social & Behavioral Science) (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Kottler's emphasis is on preventing treatment from remaining superficial. His book adds an important dimension to the literature. It describes a special kind of respect for the patient and the latent meanings of the patient's manifest utterances, and it stresses the use of the transference as a prime tool in deepening the treatment. The book is especially welcome as a balance to the proliferation of therapies that overlook the unconscious.
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- Private Moments, Secret Selves: Enriching Our Time Alone by Jeffrey Kottler Ph.D. in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Resistance: Psychodynamic and Behavioral Approaches by Paul L. Wachtel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Compleat Therapist (Jossey-Bass Social & Behavioral Science) by Jeffrey A. Kottler in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Technical Factors in the Treatment of the Severely Disturbed Patient (Classical psychoanalysis and its applications) by Peter L. Giovacchini in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Being a Therapist (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series) by Jeffrey A. Kottler in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Helping the Difficult Library Patron: New Approaches to Examining and Resolving a Long-Standing and Ongoing Problem by Linda S Katz on page 195
- Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents by Shirley Riley in Back Matter
- Beyond Blame: A New Way of Resolving Conflicts in Relationships (Jossey-Bass Psychology Series) by Jeffrey A. Kottler in Front Matter
- A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, Second Edition by Ben Rafoth on page 40
- Growing a Therapist (Jossey-Bass Social & Behavioral Science) by Jeffrey A. Kottler in Front Matter
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