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B> This title focuses on the work of practitioners in counseling, therapy, teaching, and the health professions.
These are all "high-touch" practitioner fields where the quality of the interaction with the client/student/patient is the key to success. To do the work well requires an optimal balance between "other-care" and "self-care." How does one acquire this balance? This book explores elements of this question by describing the joys and hazards of the work, the long road from novice to senior practitioner, the essence of burnout, ways to maintain the professional and personal self, methods experts use to maintain vitality, and, finally, a self-care action plan.
Written for counselors, therapists or those in the health professions.
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Resilient Practitioner.......2007-06-08
This book is indeed practical in its application and theoretical enough to be able to us it as a text book for students. I recommend it for professionals and students who are in any type of helping industry in order to be informed of the very real risks involved to one's own health and welfare when giving so much of ourselves to others. This book is sorely needed in the areas of church ministry where there is a great emphasis on helping our fellow man but often pastors and lay workers are burnt out through lack of know how and knowledge to care for themselves because of the high demands of their congregations. Although not intended by the author to be used as a religious text as such it has invaluable insight which corelates to the 'other' types of caring that is done in community life.
Greatly Reduces Anxiety in New Professionals.......2006-03-23
I found this book to greatly reduce my anxiety as it addressed all of my worries and other issues that were leading me towards burnout. It also has clear indications that it will continue to be useful as I move further into my career. This is a book I plan to read again and again.
Understanding compassion fatigue.......2005-09-26
As a social worker and educator, I highly recommend this fantastic book. The author clearly explains the many ways in which helpers are at risk for compassion fatigue and burnout due to the intensity of their work lives. He also provides many useful tips for preventing burnout. This is a very infomative and practical resource. I use it frequently to inform my own teaching of compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and burnout issues.
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Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy (4th Edition)
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This book offers a wealth of up-to-date coverage geared to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy standards. With its practical focus and planned, concise coverage, the book ensures readers gain both a theoretical background and an applications orientation. An entire chapter is devoted to exploring contemporary ethical issues for which no formal precedent has yet been established. In addition, there are numerous case studies, and discussions of the differences between MFT as a distinct profession and MFT as a professional subspecialty. In each of the three major sections, chapters address “general” issues, as well as issues specific to marriage and family therapy. A concluding chapter in each section offers case illustrations that expand upon the material covered in the previous chapter. This two-step presentation helps learners attain a greater understanding of how information is used in actual practice...and helps them more effectively internalize instruction. For marriage and family counselors.
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Well-thumbed.......2002-04-22
I qualified 2 years ago as a Marriage and Family Therapist and I know how vital it is for the therapist to have a firm grasp of the ethical and legal issues involved. And this book is a fine guide. Not being sexist or anything, but you just don't know when some flaky female client is going to misunderstand something you say and slap a harrassment suit on you. 9 times out of ten the husbands don't back you up in those sort of circumstances either so you need something like this book to bail you out. Excellent.
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A highly collaborative effort, the third edition of this classic text brings together the latest developments in the evolving area of professional counseling. Presented in this edition are current issues regarding ethics and legal issues, multicultural and diverse populations, individual and group counseling, assessment and appraisal, career development, counseling theory and practice, research, and an orientation to the profession of counseling. This book is a rich compendium of information for students and professionals who are seeking an overview of the profession or an opportunity to review curricular content required for licensure, certification, or comprehensive examinations in counseling. br br This important resource offers clear and current information on all of the eight core areas required by CACREP, and an integrated review of the profession and the most recent empirical research. It is an ideal book for a first course in a counselor training program and as a review text concerning the profession. As such, the book was chosen for inclusion in the Official Study Course for the NCE (NBCC).
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Raabe critiques both existing theoretical conceptions of philosophical counseling and accounts of its practice. He then presents and defends an overarching model of philosophical counseling that captures the best conceptions and reports of practice. The volume begins with an examination of the principles of philosophical counseling as they have been gathered from theoretical normative hypotheses and from accounts of actual practice. Raabe then presents a new model of philosophical counseling based on the combination of principles presented earlier and experiential data from his private practice. The volume concludes with sample cases from his own practice to illustrate the principles at work in a number of different applications of philosophical counseling. Practicing counselers as well as scholars and advanced students of philosophy, psychology, counseling, and educational guidance will find this work of particular importance.
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THE source on Philosophical Counselling.......2003-03-22
The Philosophical Counselling movement is not something new; in fact, philosophers more than 2,000 years ago were practising philosophy as a way of life and using it to relieve human suffering.
And though Gerd Achenbach is credited with "re-instating" the practice of philosophy in the 1980s, his method, or rather, lack of, left some questions unanswered and threatened the viability of the movement.
But a man by the name of Peter Raabe has stepped up to the challenge, answered the remaining questions, cleared up all of the previous confusion, and proven once and for all that there is indeed a method in Philosophical Counselling.
What this book does is prove with reasoned and logical statements that Philosophical Counselling is in fact a viable field, and offers a method that eliminates all of the confusion and incoherence. And Dr. Raabe provides all of this in a clear and interesting style that makes this book a pleasure to read.
But perhaps the reason that this book has become the best source on Philosophical Counselling is that Raabe has researched nearly all of the available sources on the modern PC movement, resulting in a comprehensive and cohesive work.
Raabe starts off with a brief history of PC, and then moves on to some of the definitions that practitioners have offered to explain what PC is. This serves as a good introduction to what is to follow.
Raabe then examines the descriptive accounts of the actual practise of PC, and what is meant by procedure, technique, approach, and method. He reveals that there is disagreement amongst counsellors about whether there is or should be a method in PC.
Naturally, this leads to the question of "what makes Philosophical Counselling different from Psychotherapy?". Raabe answers this question more than adequately, providing ample evidence that PC is indeed different and showing why, in many cases, it works much better in alleviating human suffering.
But the most important chapter of all is the fourth one, in which Raabe provides a new model for PC which eliminates all the confusion and gives counsellors a clear method that is superior from all others that have come before.
I cannot stress how important this new method by Raabe is, it is revolutionary in that it has advanced immensely, in my opinion, the field of PC and has proven once and for all the legitimacy of this practice.
The next chapter gives us a clear definition of what Philosophical Counselling is and puts to rest all of the critics.
Raabe also provides four different case studies with clients, so that the reader can get a good idea of what actually goes on during a counselling session. This is a great addition to the book because it offers the theory on PC, as well as different case studies to demonstrate the practise of PC.
And the four Appendixes at the end of the book are a nice treat, and quite useful even to people who aren't practitioners.
I don't think I need to give you a summary; reading this review should sum up quite nicely my thoughts on this revolutionary and very important book.
But I will say this: whether you are a Philosophical Counsellor, or intend to be, or even have no interest in the field: Read this book!
Philosophical Counselling has been around before most religions, and certainly before psychology and psychotherapy, and exists even today. Wouldn't you like to know why this wonderful field has been helping people improve their lives for thousands of years?
Better than Psychology........2001-08-11
"Empty is the argument of any philosopher who doesn't relieve any human suffering." Epicurus (341-271BC)Philosophy is different than psychology. Psychology looks at controlled scientific experiments to find out how the mind reacts to society. Philosophy is concerned with the conceptional questions like what reality? A psychologist would examine mental illness by asking the client questions. A philosopher would ask, "What is mental Illness?" Two different worlds. You cannot just blindly do what a psychologist tells you to be cured. You must philosophically think about what the problem is in the first place....Regards Frank...
Valuable book.......2001-07-13
Philosophical Counseling is a paradoxical new field that purports to help people with life's problems by engaging them in philosophical discussions. This is paradoxical in a couple of ways. On the one hand, providing assistance with life's difficulties was one of the roots of philosophy, so how can this be a new field? On the other hand, many people, especially many professional philosophers, consider philosophic problems in the year 2001 to be very far removed from the problems of life. Smug within their ivory towers, philosophers have long ago immunized themselves to the charge that their studies are of no earthly use. It brings a smile to outsiders, and causes a commotion among the philosophers, when a philosopher hangs out a shingle offering a useful service for a fee.
One of the central issues that Raabe examines in his book is: How can that fee be ethically justified? In the process of examining this, Raabe provides a broad survey of the field of Philosophical Counseling. Since the field is new, there is little general consensus even as to it's definition. Many of its practitioners use widely differing definitions of Philosophical Counseling in their own work. Raabe offers a critical survey of these various conceptions. Strikingly, Raabe is critical of the "Beyond Method Method" of the movement's founder, Gerd Achenbach.
One man with whom I discussed "Philosophical Counseling - Theory and Practice" said in mock horror, "This is about counseling, not philosophy!" It is about counseling, explicitly and didactically so; the book could serve as an introductory text on counseling, I think. But the book is about philosophy too, for one of Philosophical Counseling's main ideas is that many of the stresses and upsets that people feel grow out of philosophical mistakes or misconceptions.
Philosophical Counseling has a very broad overlap with psychological counseling. Many methods of psychological counseling, such as Cognitive Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, deal extensively with philosophic ideas in their practice. Part of Raabe's task is to find something that would in fact distinguish Philosophical Counseling from other already well established forms of counseling, and also to find a task that Philosophical Counseling can perform better than psychological counseling.
Very broadly, the divide that Raabe finds is the one between therapy and education. Sometimes something is wrong with us; our leg is broken, we're attacked by germs, chemical structures in our brains are upset - these are all clearly medical problems. At other times, we just don't understand right, or we just don't know how to do something; we get wet feet because we don't know the tide is rising, we can't cross the water because we can't find the bridge. These are clearly educational problems. One might imagine a boundary between medicine and education; a place where the influence of the structure of the body blends with the influence of ideas to determine things like our various capabilities, aptitudes and attitudes, as well as our experience of happiness with our existence. One side of that boundary is the terrain of the psychologist, the other side of that boundary is the terrain of the philosopher.
I'm not a philosopher or a counselor, but I found Raabe's book both an interesting read and a wealth of information. I'm not an insider to the growing Philosophical Counseling movement, but I understand that the challenges that Raabe has raised are controversial in many quarters. But as Raabe says, unless the movement can properly and ethically establish just what it's practice is, it will be threatened by charlatans.
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Conserving biodiversity in the real world: professional practice using a policy orientation. (applications).: An article from: Endangered Species Update
Tim W. Clark ,
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Title: Conserving biodiversity in the real world: professional practice using a policy orientation. (applications).
Author: Tim W. Clark
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From the author: Program planners combined feedback from previous orientation sessions and relevant literature to determine a new framework to support faculty career development. The Professional Development Planner is based on the traditional three-part role of the faculty (teaching, research, and service). The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the rationale for such a product--an inside look at the process leading to the selection of specific materials and the explanation of how the tool led to immediate changes in the training initiatives of both the research office and the faculty development office.
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Finding the right software for a company is downright scary! Whether it's for inventory, e-commerce, accounting, e-mail, or whatever else the company needs, a poor software decision has negative ripple effects that can undermine business for years to come (and damage reputations as well).
This pragmatic book is for anyone charged with evaluating and choosing an application. It provides a systematic method for selecting the best software. In careful detail, the book guides readers through each key step to obtaining a package that meets their needs, based on: critical requirements, budget, culture, and in-house technical expertise. Readers learn how to:
* Create a request for proposal (RFP), and then understand how to thoroughly evaluate the vendors' responses * Accurately compare requirements against the package * Ensure that the vendor demonstrations really help them determine if the software can do the job they need * Investigate the software company to make sure it's reliable * Negotiate the contract to the organization's advantage.
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solid coverage of the topic.......2007-06-05
as a mid/large size bank, we buy software all the time. lots of people with different backgrounds get involved in the decision and it helps to have a few project managers and business decision makers to use this as a reference. after you do this a few times, it becomes second nature but for anyone that is doing this for the first time, this can be a help guide the project and more importantly, avoid costly mistakes.
Practical and solid approach to selecting software.......2002-06-02
This book provides both selection criteria and a process in which to apply them. It's based on the author's R2ISC method. This method stands for Requirements (current and future), Implementability, Supportability and Cost. Both the criteria and the process are provided in detail and in a step-by-step approach, which has the following benefits:
(1) Ensures that the major selection factors are thoroughly examined.
(2) Reduces cost and technical risks by examining those aspects of the selection.
(3) Addresses the alignment of requirements to business needs, which is often overlooked when IT is entrusted to perform selections (the main failure I've observed is that IT gets too caught up in technical details and features without looking at the way packages support business requirements - this book's approach will prevent that from happening if followed).
Criteria in more detail are:
- Current requirements: how well does the package being evaluated map to current
business needs
- Future requirements: can the package being evaluated be modified to support future business needs (which you will need to forecast).
- Implementability: what is required to implement the package (how well does it fit into your existing technical environment and strategic technology plan)
- Supportability: How much training is required? Are special skills needed that need to be hired or contracted? Are there impacts to existing systems, processes and workload?
- Cost: TCO - total cost of ownership. What will ongoing support, including vendor contracts, cost. This is where the real surprises emerge because the initial costs of a package are but a fraction of the true cost.
The R2ISC process is straightforward and looks deceptively easy at a high level. It consists of the following Set the Goal (rate each package under evaluation against the R2ISC criteria), Narrow the Field (the short list), Select the Winner and Sign the Contract. The last step is the one that is fraught with peril and can undo the best evaluation if the contract is improperly negotiated. The book gives excellent pointers.
If you are faced with software selection this book will give you a clear set of criteria and a process. Be aware that the approach looks easier on paper than it is in practice. This is not a criticism of the book or the approach, both of which are excellent, but a warning that the process takes hard work and due diligence - two ingredients that no book can provide.
Highly recommended reading for software selection.......2001-06-13
Excellent book for both an IT professional or business manager. Presents a well planned methodology and rating method for selecting a software package. Includes plenty of examples. Also includes project planning for the selection process, RFP essentials, contract negotiations, workshops, scripted demos,...
Book has some editing problems but they are minor compared to the overall content of the book.
Nathan Hollander Scores With a Great Book.......2001-05-19
Nathan Hollander is an excellant author of this great guide to software package evaluation & selection. It is great for those new to the computer world and also for those entrenched in the computer sciences. This guide is easy to follow and with its great detail allows the reader to understand the R2Isc method. Personally, I use this book as a guide and quick refference as well as recomending it to my students. Hollander is gold with this, his third guide, and I recomend the use of this book to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of computers.
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