Clinician's Guide to Self-Renewal Essential Advice from the Field

Providing clinicians with advice consistent with the current emphasis on working from strengths to promote renewal, this guide presents a holistic approach to psychological wellness. Time-tested advice is featured from experts such as Craig Cashwell, Jeffrey Barnett, and Kenneth Pargament. With strategies to renew the mind, body, spirit, and community, this book equips clinicians with guidance and inspiration for the renewal of body, mind, community, and spirit in their clients and themselves.

ROBERT J. WICKS, PsyD, is a professor at Loyola University Maryland. He has authored and edited over 40 books on personal and professional wellbeing. Dr. Wicks has inspired large audiences through transformative public speaking engagements across the country.

ELIZABETH A. MAYNARD, PhD, is the Director of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Dr. Maynard regularly speaks on spiritual-psychological integration, human sexuality, prejudice, and coping.

Part 1 Self-Renewal and the Clinician

Chapter 1 Growth, Love, and Work in Psychotherapy: Sources Of Therapeutic Talent And Clinician Self-Renewal

Helene Nissen-Lie and David E. Orlinsky

Chapter 2 Renewing One’s Self-Care Sensibilities: Distress, Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization, and Self-Renewal

Jeffrey E. Barnett

Chapter 3 Self-Care For Clinicians In the Disaster Context

Rick Williamson and Patricia A. Engert

Chapter 4 Clinical Supervision and Self-Renewal

Craig S. Cashwell and Jodi L. Bartley

Part 2 Alonetime, Mindfulness, The Sabbath, Natural Empathy: Loving Kindness, Zen Therapy And Self-Renewal

Chapter 5 Valuing and Accessing Alonetime: Silence, Solitude, and Reflection in the Life of the Clinician

Robert Wicks

Chapter 6 Keeping the Sabbath: Privileging Being Beyond Doing

Jill L. Snodgrass

Chapter 7 Self-Renewal Through Natural Empathy: Caring for Ourselves and Others

Cheryl Giles

Chapter 8 Mind and Heart: Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation for Therapists

Kathleen Gregory, Geoffrey Newbegin, and Margot J. Schofield

Chapter 9 Zen Therapy

David Brazier

Part 3 Trauma, Growth, Healing, Patience, Forgiveness, Courage And The Process Of Renewal

Chapter 10 Blooming in The Night: Themes of Self-Renewal in Posttraumatic Growth

Mary Beth Werdel

Chapter 11 Tell the Story: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing

Suzanne Mayer

Chapter 12 Patience

Sarah A. Schnitker, Amber E. Blews, and Jessica A. Foss

Chapter 13 Forgiveness and Self-Renewal

Matthew J. Hirshberg and Robert D. Enright

Chapter 14 Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Courage for Self-Renewal

Cynthia L. S. Pury and Kaye N. Glennon

Part 4 Theoretical Approaches to Self-Renewal: Group, Marital and Family System, Dialectical Behavioral and the Ways Paradigm

Chapter 15 The Group as a Medium for Personal and Professonal Renewal

Virginia Brabender and Courtney Slater

Chapter 16 Renewal in Marital and Family Systems

Paul Giblin

Chapter 17 A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Approach to Self-Renewal

Maria Mouratidis

Chapter 18 Self-Renewal and the Ways Paradigm

Sharon E. Cheston

Part 5 Spirituality and Self-Renewal

Chapter 19 Spiritual Coping Resources for the Self-Renewal of Clients and Therapists

Melissa D. Falb and Kenneth I. Pargament

Chapter 20 Religion and Spiritualty: A Source of Renewal for Families

Gina M. Brelsford and Jaelyn R. Farris

Part 6 Topics in Self-Renewal

Chapter 21 Self-Renewal with African Americans in Psychotherapy

Deborah G. Haskins

Chapter 22 Clergy Self-Renewal Themes in Clinical Practice

Thomas E. Rodgerson

Chapter 23 Self-Renewal among Gay and Lesbian Adults

Elizabeth A. Maynard and Katie E. Katuzny

Chapter 24 Renewing One’s Ethical Sensibilities

Jeffrey E. Barnett

Chapter 25 Sexual Attraction and Self-Renewal in Psychotherapy

Stephen W. Simpson and Jonathan D. Reeves

Going Forward: A Brief Epilogue

Robert J. Wicks and Elizabeth A. Maynard

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