Becoming a Therapist : On the Path to Mastery

All practitioners start with the novice voyage involving excitement, intensity, anxiety, and challenge. A good beginning increases the chance for maximum professional functioning in later years. Becoming a Therapist explores the intense experiences of developing counselors, psychologists, and other helping professionals, and helps them understand how their own emergent needs and internal processes affect their ability to help current or future clients. Blending theory and technique with many novel ideas, the book focuses on the experience of those who are new to the field rather than simply focusing on development of specific skills.

THOMAS M. SKOVHOLT, PhD, ABPP, is a professor in the counselor training program at the University of Minnesota and a licensed psychologist. He teaches the practicum course for MA and doctoral students and the supervision practicum course for doctoral students. His research and writing is on practitioner development and includes practitioner resiliency, developmental phases, master therapists, and struggles of the beginner. He is board certified by ABPP, a Fellow of APA, and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Minnesota. His international experiences include a Fulbright year in Turkey and teaching in Singapore.

Opening up Your Life to the Excitement of the Helping Professions
Novice Advantages
The Curse of Ambiguity, Other Ills and What to Do About Them
Who Am I Becoming? The Unfolding Practitioner Self
Developing Habits of Culturally Competent Practice
Issues, Concerns and Tips for the Novice Practitioner: Antidotes to Novice Stress
Becoming a Resilient Practitioner
Worlds Apart-The Academic Research Culture vs. the Culture of Practice and the Search for Common Space
The Three-Legged Practitioner?s Learning Stool: Practice, Theory /Research, Personal Life
Themes and Phases in Counselor and Therapist Development
Mastery and Expertise
The Cycle of Caring: Essence of the Work
The Holding World of Supervisors, Mentors and Peers
The Enormous Meaning of the Work
Methodology for the Minnesota Counselor and Therapist Development Research Study and Methodology for the Minnesota Master Therapist Research Study
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Becoming a Therapist : On the Path to Mastery

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