Hard-Earned Lessons from Counselling in Action

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Therapists often struggle in their work with clients, convinced that their more experienced colleagues don't encounter similar problems or haven't been faced with similar worries. In Hard-Earned Lessons From Counseling in Action, leading therapists share their personal trials and lessons learned. In so doing, they prove that all therapists, no matter how expert or well known, have made mistakes--or faced challenges--and have had to learn from them aspects about the process of counseling--the hard way. Each contributor provides five hard-earned lessons and the particular circumstances that preceded it. This powerful volume will give comfort to both beginning and seasoned therapists by showing that everyone struggles from time to time in their work with clients. The advice and wealth of experience these lessons provide will be invaluable to all therapists, at all levels. Supportive and encouraging, Hard-Earned Lessons From Counseling in Action will be helpful to both students and professionals of counseling/clinical psychology and the human services. "This is a very honest book and should be essential reading for anyone beginning training as a counselor. It will also be useful for experienced therapists to stimulate reflections on their own practice. I would recommend this book....provides an open discussion on the problems encountered by therapists." --Clinical Psychology Forum "The fallibility of our fellow eminent practitioners can be a curiously reassuring reminder of our common human frailty. It is a comforting compensation for all of us that learning from our errors can improve our work. . . . The contributors . . . are unified by genuine and explicit revelation of their failingsand a commitment to recycle learning. I certainly can apply their lessons to some of my own dilemmas, am and sure other practitioners can do likewise." -- Self & Society