Bein The Zen of Helping

Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-43771-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Bring compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice. As a mental health professional, you will appreciate the vivid metaphors, case examples, personal anecdotes, quotes and poems in this book and use them as a spiritual foundation for your professional practice. Connect Zen Buddhism with your human service and address issues like dealing with your own responses to your client's trauma and pain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bein, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Edward R. Canda, PhD).
Foreword (Joan Halifax Roshi, PhD).
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. A Spiritual Framework for Our Clients and Ourselves (BeyondSpiritual Neutrality).
2. Sitting with Clients on Uncertain Ground: Strong Back, SoftFront (Beyond Evidence-Based Practice).
3. Radical Acceptance of Clients, Context and Self (Beyond CarlRogers' Positive Regard).
4. Mindfulness: Steadying the Mind and Being Present (BeyondEmpathy Skills and Counter-Transference).
5. Curiosity, Compassionate Caring, and Inspiration (BeyondProfessional Warmth).
6. Bearing Witness to Trauma and Pain (Beyond ClinicalDistance).
7. The Middle Way: Embracing Contradiction and Paradox (BeyondDualistic Thinking).
8. Having the Conversation: Making Space for Client Spirituality(Beyond the Great Taboo).
9. Dealing with Failure (Beyond Cognitive Solutions and theParadigm of Blame).
10. Swimming Upstream with a Warrior's Heart (Beyond Working aHuman Services Job).
Appendix: Brief Introduction to Buddhism and Zen.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bein, PhD, LCSW, has twenty-three years of experience as a clinician, consultant trainer, and researcher. His professional experience includes work in child welfare, public schools/special education, youth programs, multiservice centers, substance abuse, and private practice. Dr. Bein has been a Zen student for ten years and is a Full Professor with the Division of Social Work at California State University, Sacramento.