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Inclusive Cultural Empathy shows readers how to reach beyond the comfort zone of an individualistic perspective and increase competence in a relationship-centered context. The authors weave their own layered multicultural experiences with procedural, theoretical, and practical lessons to bring readers a model for how they might infuse their own clinical work with inclusion and multicultural sensitivity.
The authors present a broad definition of culture—to include nationality, ethnicity, language, age, gender, socioeconomic status, family roles, and other affiliations—and engage the reader with lively examples and exercises that can be adapted for classroom, supervision groups, or individual use. With this book readers will learn how to help clients explore, discover, and leverage those internalized voices of their "culture teachers" that teach us who we are, how to behave, and how to resolve our problems or find life balance. |
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Interviews with some of the most prominent spiritual leaders, writers, and healers on the planet revealed stories covering every imaginable variation of the phenomenon of spiritual transformation. These experiences took place in chapels and Buddhist temples, on a walk in Ireland or in the African jungle, alone or at the feet of a great teacher. They were precipitated by trauma, tragedy, and adversity but also by moments of great joy. A few fit the template of a formal religious conversion but many were far more secular. What they all had in common is that they resulted in a life-changing path that gave greater meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to the person's life. |
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Introduces the reader to Alfred Adler’s seminal approach to psychotherapy.
Starting from the principle that human behavior is goal oriented and socially
embedded, Adlerian therapy is a brief psychoeducational approach that emphasizes
understanding individual’s characteristic ways of moving through life – the life
style – before working toward change. The authors demonstrate the
relevance of Adlerian therapy today by illustrating how Adler’s ideas have
influenced current practice and emphasizing the short-term nature of its interventions.
In addition, the authors show how Adlerian therapy works in practice with individuals,
couples, families, and groups as well as in educational settings.
This book is for practitioners of all orientations who want to ground
their practices in a holistic theory that makes sense for toady’s world. Students
will also benefit from learning about Adler’s theory and flexible strategies.
Readers will find a model of diagnosis that can be used to compliment diagnoses
from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders, many case examples
to illustrate important Adlerian concepts, and helpful therapist-client dialogues
with interpretive comments that show the counselor’s active approach to
assessment and collaborative problem solving.
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Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most
work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are
taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and countertransference.
However, while these professional hazards are very real, the scholarly focus
on the negative potential of the client-counselor relationship often implies
that no good can come of allowing oneself to get too close to a client's issues.
This sentiment obscures what every therapist knows to be true: that the client-counselor
relationship can also effect powerful positive transformations in a therapist's
own life.
How Clients Transform Their Therapists is Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson's
testimony to the significant and often life-changing ways in which therapists
have been changed by their patients. Kottler and Carlson draw not only upon their
own extensive experience-between them, they have more than fifty years in the
field-but also upon lengthy interviews with dozens of the country's foremost
therapists and theorists. This novel work will present readers with a truly unique
perspective on the business of therapy: not merely how it appears externally,
but how practitioners experience it internally. Although these stories paint
a complex and multi-layered portrait of the client-counselor relationship, they
all demonstrate the profound and unexpected rewards that the profession has to
offer.
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This is a book written for practicing therapists, scholars, clergy,
students, and those with a general interest in non-traditional healing and helping
practices. It tells the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be
inducted as a shaman in both the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures. It offers lessons
on the essence of making a difference in others' lives, not through the familiar,
well-worn paths of traditional psychotherapy but through the work of spiritual
healers and "doctors" of the oldest cultures on this planet. It is
an integration of psychological, spiritual, kinesthetic, and anthropological
methods into a biography of one of the most charismatic, creative clinicians
working today, not just in traditional mental health settings but in the jungles
of the Amazon, the deserts of Namibia and Botswana, and the most remote islands
in the South Pacific.
The authors present applications of indigenous shamanistic concepts to the practice
of helping and healing. The book centers on a series of9 chapters that examine
specific principles of shamanism and apply them to the practices and desires
of counselors, therapists, and educators, including a wide range of examples
from Keeney's own personal experiences as well as those of other shamans he has
come to know. This is a book that challenges the foundation of everything we
think we know and understand about helping and healing. |
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A woman pretends to hang herself in the basement to see how long it takes for her husband to "rescue" her; a heart-broken family mummifies their dead mother so they can keep her in the living room, sleep with her in bed, and join her at the dining room table; a rustic farmer wants his nose cut off to escape an embarrassing smell; a teenage boy will only come to therapy with his pet snake . . .
These and other fascinating and revealing stories are told by some of the most famous therapists in the world. Collected in an extraordinary book, well known practitioners recount the most memorable case histories of their illustrious careers. Engaging and surprising stories of human behavior are dramatically and often humorously portrayed. Each chapter gives a behind-the-scenes look at how therapists work with clients whose problems and behaviors aren't found in standard textbooks. The book also shows how these eminent therapists often cure these apparently intractable problems and learn something about themselves in the process.
Written with compassion and a healthy dose of wit, this book illustrates how these unusual clients have persevered and coped with their demons, and clearly shows how the relationship between therapist and client can be transformative for both parties. While The Mummy at the Dining Room Table reveals the enigmatic nature of the human condition, it ultimately celebrates the triumph of the spirit and demonstrates the power of understanding, insight, hope and hard work from both sides of the therapeutic encounter.
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