On becoming a counselor : a basic guide for counselors and other helpers /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Paulist Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Common sense in a changing world
- Acknowledgments
- part 1. Counselors: who are they and what do they do?
- Guiding principles
- The stress of emotional involvement
- Hardbought wisdom
- Relating with others: what other people do to us
- Relating with others: what we do to them
- Relating with others: revelations about ourselves
- The role demands of counselors: being real
- The self as an instrument in helping others
- Are we friends or counselors?
- part 2. How do we interview?
- A problem: the reluctant person
- I won't dance, you can't make me!
- Plotting our course
- Diagnosis: an overview
- Listening to the lvies of others
- To whom shall we go?
- Countertransference: can I say what I feel?
- Supportive psychotherapy
- part 3. The language of seriously disturbed persons
- Ever person's illness: our changing moods
- The many variants of anxiety
- Stress: no life without it
- Counseling persons with sexual disorders
- Substances: use and abuse
- Reading the signs of neurocognitive disorders
- Introductory notes on personality disorders
- Personality disorders: Cluster A
- Personality disorders: Cluster B
- Personality disorders: Cluster C
- part 4. Marriage counseling
- Counseling the person with HIV/AIDS
- Death in our culture
- Bereavement: suffering our losses
- Suicide: weighing the risk
- Emergencies: being a steady presence
- Taking counsel with ourselves
- Notes
- Index.