The Counsellor's Self in Therapy : An Exploration of the Personal Attributes Counsellors Bring to their Therapeutic Work

ISBN-13: 9783639102024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Andrea Reupert

Opis

In this book, counsellors from different backgrounds describe what they bring of themselves to therapy and how their self might impact on clients. The counsellors describe the counsellor''s self as a multifaceted, integrated and, in the main, a positive entity. This self includes counsellors'' professional knowledge and skills as well as their beliefs, values, thoughts, feelings, personal style and an unknown aspect of self that some referred to as their unconscious. Counsellors were clear that the presence of self was inevitable, as well as offering them a deliberate tool that they might employ. Various self enactments were highlighted, in particular the use of self in the therapeutic alliance. The implications for training, practice and supervision are explored also. Overall, this book highlights the importance of self that counsellors bring to their work, and provides a discussion of how the presence of self might most effectively be utilised when working with clients.

O autorze

Dr. Reupert trained as a teacher and psychologist and has over
20 years experience working in schools, universities, private
practice and supervision. Dr. Reupert is senior lecturer at the
Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, in the School of
Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences,
Monash University, Australia.