Becoming a Therapist: A Manual for Personal and Professional Development

✍ Scribed by Malcolm C Cross

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 115
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Personal development is fundamental to professional development and therapeutic practice. Until now, the unstructured personal or reflective journal has by default become the sole vehicle for recording reflection through training. Becoming a Therapist is a unique practical manual, facilitating the movement and growth of the reader, whilst raising awareness of resistance to change. With challenging questions and exercises, it forces the reader to consider his or her own personal value systems, strengths and limitations as they relate to the practice of therapy, tackling vital issues such as: family; culture; gender; and ethics.Indispensable to counsellors, counselling psychologists and psychotherapists in training, Becoming a Therapist is a thought-provoking companion to personal and professional development.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
FAMILY......Page 12
CULTURE......Page 35
GENDER......Page 55
ETHICS......Page 67
PERSONAL STRENGTHS......Page 75
CHANGE AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE......Page 95
CONCLUSION......Page 103
Finding a counsellor or personal therapist......Page 108
References......Page 109
Index......Page 112