Clinician's Guide to Self-Renewal: Essential Advice from the Field [Hardcover]

Providing clinicians with advice consistent with the current emphasis on working from strengths to promote renewal, this guide presents a holistic approach to psychological wellness. Time-tested advice is featured from experts such as Craig Cashwell, Jeffrey Barnett, and Kenneth Pargament. With strategies to renew the mind, body, spirit, and community, this book equips clinicians with guidance and inspiration for the renewal of body, mind, community, and spirit in their clients and themselves.

About the Book xi

About the Editors xiii

About the Authors xv

Self-Renewal Themes in Psychotherapy: An Introduction xxiii

Part I Self-Renewal and the Clinician

1 Growth, Love, and Work in Psychotherapy: Sources of Therapeutic Talent and Clinician Self-Renewal 3
Helene Nissen-Lie and David E. Orlinsky

2 Renewing Ones Self-Care Sensibilities: Distress, Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization, and Self-Renewal 25
Jeffrey E. Barnett

3 Self-Care for Clinicians in the Disaster Context 45
Rick Williamson and Patricia A. Engert

4 Clinical Supervision and Self-Renewal 61
Craig S. Cashwell and Jodi L. Bartley

Part II Alonetime, Mindfulness, the Sabbath, Natural Empathy: Loving Kindness, Zen Therapy, and Self-Renewal

5 Valuing and Accessing Alonetime: Silence, Solitude, and Reflection in the Life of the Clinician 85
Robert J. Wicks

6 Keeping the Sabbath: Privileging Being Beyond Doing 103
Jill L. Snodgrass

7 Self-Renewal Through Natural Empathy: Caring flS