The Developing Practitioner: Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors

ISBN-13: 9780415884594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 392 str.

USA) Skovholt Thomas (University of Minnesota

Opis

This text provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counsellors and therapists over the career lifespan. Readers are provided with empirically based conceptual knowledge that can increase their awareness of the central issues in professional development, allowing them to monitor their own development.

Spis treści

Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations for the Study of Practitioner Development Perspectives on Practitioners’ Professional Development. Models and Conceptions of Learning, Expertise, and Decision-Making. Cultural Discourses of Helping: Perspectives on What People Bring with Them when They Start Training in Therapy and Counseling. Part II: A Qualitative Study of Therapist and Counselor Development The Novice Student Phase. The Advanced Student Phase. The Novice Professional Phase. The Experienced Professional Phase. The Senior Professional Phase. Themes of Therapists’ Professional Development. A Cyclical/Trajectories Model of Therapists’ Professional Development and Stagnation. A Developmentally Sensitive Approach to Supervision. Part III: Expanding Views Master Therapists: Explorations of Expertise. Therapist Professional Resilience. Positive and negative cycles of practitioner development: Evidence, Concepts, and Implications from a Collaborative Quantitative Study of Psychotherapists. Appendices.