On Being A Therapist

Name: On Being A Therapist
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler
ISBN: 9781452676265

Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/30/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Synopsis

For more than twenty-five years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. In this thoroughly revised and updated fourth 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 explores the stress factors that are brought on from managed care bureaucracy, conflicts at work, and clients' own anxiety and depression. This new edition puts the spotlight on the therapist's role and responsibility to promote issues of diversity, social justice, human rights, and systemic changes within the community and the world at large.

About Jeffrey A. Kottler

Jeffrey A. Kottler is a professor in the department of counseling at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Last Victim, Divine Madness, Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, and Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own. Jeffrey is also head of the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which provides scholarships for at-risk girls in Nepal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carter on August 05, 2015

I've read a lot of psych books in the past 6 years but this was by far the most useful. Kottler provides the reader with an honest, raw, uncensored look at being a mental health professional. As a graduate student in Clinical Counseling I found his commentary to be at times frightening, really chall......more

Goodreads review by Rob on January 12, 2013

There are some books that pretty much every would-be or practicing therapist ought to read during their tenure as a clinician. I believe On Being a Therapist to be one of them. Granted, there are also some books that ought to be approached with a certain measure of commitment, and Kottler's book fit......more

Goodreads review by Ludmilla on September 03, 2021

Bu kitabı Elif Okan Gezmiş’in hayli temiz çevirisiyle okuma fırsatı bulduğum için şanslıyım, kavram karmaşası da yok, her şey yerli yerinde. Kottler’in bu kitabı size nasıl terapist olunacağını anlatmıyor, bu yolda yaşadığınız zorluklarda hiç de yalnız olmadığınızı çok çarpıcı örneklerle dürüstçe an......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on February 11, 2022

Edited review: what I considered “Like a hug for the aspiring therapist” at 50 pages in, became a bit of a desolate exploration into the very real and very depressing realities of being a therapist, without any tempering. In all honesty, I attempted to skim the latter half, but it honestly left me w......more

Goodreads review by Tavan on June 22, 2020

An essential read for anyone interested in the field of mental health or social work.......more