Zen of Helping

Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice. As a mental health professional, you will appreciate the vivid metaphors, case examples, personal anecdotes, quotes and poems in this book and use them as a spiritual foundation for your professional practice. Connect Zen Buddhism with your human service and address issues like dealing with your own responses to your client’s trauma and pain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-09-02
Mått140 x 213 x 20 mm
Vikt227 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470333099

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Andrew Bein, PhD, LCSW, has twenty-three years of experience as a clinician, consultant trainer, and researcher. His professional experience includes work in child welfare, public schools/special education, youth programs, multiservice centers, substance abuse, and private practice. Dr. Bein has been a Zen student for ten years and is a Full Professor with the Division of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento.

Foreword Edward R.Canada, PhD ixForeword Joan Halifax Roshi, PhD xiiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xxi1 A Spiritual Helping Framework for Our Clients and Ourselves Beyond Spiritual Neutrality 12 Sitting with Clients on Uncertain Ground: Strong Back, Soft Front Beyond Evidence-Based Practice 93 Radical Acceptance of Clients, Context, and Self Beyond Carl Rogers’ Positive Regard 274 Mindfulness: Steadying the Mind and Being Present Beyond Empathy Skills and Counter-Transference 475 Curiosity, Compassionate Caring, and Inspiration Beyond Professional Warmth 716 Bearing Witness to Trauma and Pain Beyond Clinical Distance 977 The Middle Way: Embracing Contradiction and Paradox Beyond Dualistic Thinking 1358 Having the Conversation: Making Space for Client Spirituality Beyond the Great Taboo 1539 Dealing with Failure Beyond Cognitive Solutions and the Paradigm of Blame 16310 Swimming Upstream with a Warrior’s Heart Beyond Working a Human Services Job 175Appendix Brief Introduction to Buddhism and Zen 185References 191Index 195