"Every profession has trade secrets that are passed on from one generation to the next and counseling is no exception. These cherished lessons based on wide-ranging experiences and passion for the craft are shared by masters with students and colleagues and include fresh ideas, noteworthy interventions, and even little tricks learned over time that increase both professional effectiveness and personal satisfaction. These unique practices ..."
"A wife pretends to hang herself in the basement so she can time how long it will be before her husband comes to rescue her. . . .a woman whose dead aunt was made into a mummy so the family could better grieve her passing and on occasion dine with her at family gatherings . . . a man wants his nose cut off to escape an annoying smell that haunts him . . . a teenage boy would only come to therapy if he could bring his pet snake These and ..."
"This text provides students with an overview of the counseling profession, including information on what counseling is, the history of counseling, theoretical orientations, counseling applications and professional issues. The text's unique student-oriented focus engages students in exploring their motives for wanting to be a counselor. To helps students learn about the realities of the field, Kottler includes "Voices from the Field" sec ..."
Learning Group Leadership(1st Edition) An Experiential Approach by JeffreyA. Kottler Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2000 by Allyn & Bacon ISBN-13: 978-0-205-32151-3, ISBN: 0-205-32151-8
" This introduction to leading group therapy takes an experiential approach to the discipline, and is written with the beginning group practitioner in mind. The experiential aspect of this book reflects the needs of both the seasoned and novice counselor. The experiential approach provides beginners an opportunity to apply what they are learning to their own lives and work. For social workers and therapists."
Teacher as Counselor(1st Edition) Developing the Helping Skills You Need (Survival Skills for Teachers) by Dr. JeffreyA. Kottler, Ellen I. Kottler Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 1993 by Corwin ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-6050-3, ISBN: 0-8039-6050-6
"This volume provides teachers with the basic ideas and skills needed in their increasing role as counsellors in the classroom. The authors show how to develop high degrees of interpersonal sensitivity and demonstrate how teachers can use counselling skills to deal effectively with day-to-day problems. Each chapter contains specific activities designed to broaden understanding of the concepts and to apply them to real-life situations."
The Therapist's Workbook(2nd Edition) Self-Assessment, Self-Care, and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals by JeffreyA. Kottler Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Wiley ISBN-13: 978-1-118-02631-1, ISBN: 1-118-02631-4
"Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well-being? Filled with self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, this timely book helps clinicians help themselves with coverage of career threatening issues, such as fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of ..."
"This overview of the counseling profession exposes you to real challenges faced by experienced practitioners and gives you an unparalleled look at what your professional future may hold. Introduction To Counseling: Voices From The Field, Eighth Edition, explains what counseling is as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. As you become engaged in the process of learning and applying counsel ..."
"Learning Group Leadership: An Experiential Approach equips readers with the basic information, theory, concepts, research, interventions, and guidelines required to help them develop into effective group leaders within a variety of settings. The book employs an experiential approach, encouraging readers to apply what they learn to common scenarios in their personal and professional lives. In the fourth edition of this popular, student ..."
"This book covers the basic skills necessary to serve and help clients in a therapeutic relationship. It takes an experiential, student-centered approach and reflects upon therapy as an art, rather than just a diagnostic tool. This helps students understand that a skilled therapist looks at every situation and person differently and draws on their embedded skills to best serve the client. The skills covered include listening, building a ..."
"Focusing on how to conduct and lead groups in a variety of therapeutic settings, Learning Group Leadership: An Experiential Approach, Third Edition covers theory, process, leadership, ethics, special populations, and challenges as they relate to group work in a positive, realistic, and knowledgeable way. Jeffrey A. Kottler and Matt Englar-Carlson introduce important conceptual and practical information and then use activities, exercises ..."
"Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Teaching English Language Learners: Strategies for the Classroom serves as an authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population. Based on the best-selling Children with Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom, Second Edition, this revised edition offers preservice and inservice teachers additional teaching strategies for build ..."
"In this updated version of the bestseller, you will learn tangible ways to supercharge your teaching skills while avoiding the pitfalls common to beginning teachers."
"Kottler and Brown offer a practical, student-centered introductory text that helps beginners to the field understand the realities of therapeutic practice as well as the foundational theory and research of the field. Students are encouraged to personalize the content and to apply what they learn in class and in their own lives."
The Compleat Therapist(1st Edition) by JeffreyA. Kottler Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1991 by Jossey-Bass ISBN-13: 978-1-55542-302-5, ISBN: 1-55542-302-7
"How can therapists practice so differently, yet achieve similar results? Jeffrey Kottler identifies the traits all good therapists have in common and combines the most effective healing practices into one coherent framework. He also shows how to integrate these characteristics into your own practice."
"... principles and issues that find their way into professional practice. ...
that counselors and psychotherapists are often unaware of the extent to which
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"Identify several subjects that may come up in conversations with children and
about which you feel very strongly ... SUGGESTED READING Cochran, J. L., &
Cochran, N. H. (2006). ... Sommers-Flanagan, J., & Sommers-Flanagan, R. (1997
). Tough kids, cool counseling: User-friendly approaches with challenging youth."
Change(Reprint) What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation by JeffreyA. Kottler Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-086685-3, ISBN: 0-19-086685-3
"Change is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never escape our self-destructive behaviors, even when we desperately want to? What is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, lear ..."
"Jeffrey A. Kottler, Richard S. Balkin. Gladding, S. T. (2008). The impact of
creativity in counseling. Journal of creativity in mental health, 3, 97–104. doi:
10.1080/15401380802226679 Gladding, S. T. (2015). Groups: A counseling
specialty (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. Goldsmith, R., Barlow, M., & Freyd, J. (
2004). Knowing and not knowing about trauma: Implications for therapy.
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, ..."