Mindfulness for Therapists: Practice for the Heart

ISBN-13: 9780415898263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 106 str.

Eric McCollum

Opis

In order to help clients use mindfulness practices in their own lives, therapists need to have more than just an intellectual understanding of the field. Mindfulness for Therapists helps therapists develop their own mindfulness practice and teaches techniques that will help them deal with the stress and weariness that can result from the emotionally difficult work of therapy. It is the first book to address the ways in which a mindfulness practice can help therapists treat clients who have focused concerns, and help therapists deal with their own stress and burnout as well.

Spis treści

Preface 1.The challenge of presence in a multi-tasking world 2.What is mindfulness? 3. What do we know about mindfulness: The research record 4. How does mindfulness benefit therapists? 5. Cultivating mindfulness 6. The complexities of compassion 7. Things get in the way: Obstacles to being present 8. Practicing to be present 9. A final thought

O autorze

Eric E. McCollum, PhD, is Professor and Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Master's Program at Virginia Tech, where he teaches mindfulness meditation to all students in the Marriage and Family Therapy training program. He has practiced psychotherapy for nearly 40 years and has practiced meditation in the Buddhist vipassana tradition for more than 30 years.