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The zen of helping : spiritual principles for mindful and open-hearted practice / Andrew Bein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bein, Andrew M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counseling.
- Counseling--Religious aspects--Zen Buddhism.
- Psychotherapy--Religious aspects--Zen Buddhism.
- Psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A spiritual framework for our clients and ourselves : beyond spiritual neutrality
- Sitting with clients on uncertain ground : strong back, soft front : beyond evidence-based practice
- Radical acceptance of clients, context, and self : beyond Carl Rogers' positive regard
- Mindfulness : steadying the mind and being present : beyond empathy skills and counter-transference
- Curiosity, compassionate caring, and inspiration : beyond professional warmth
- Bearing witness to trauma and pain : beyond clinical distance
- The middle way : embracing contradiction and paradox : beyond dualistic thinking
- Having the conversation : making space for client spirituality : beyond the great taboo
- Dealing with failure : beyond cognitive solutions and the paradigm of blame
- Swimming upstream with a warrior's heart : beyond working a human services job.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611766917
- 9780470437711
- 0470437715
- 9781281766915
- 1281766917
- 9780470386057
- 0470386053
- OCLC:
- 437219540
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