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The Zen of Helping: Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice
Author Bein, Andrew (著)
Date2008.08
Pages224
PublisherWiley
Publisher Url http://www.wiley.com/
LocationHoboken, NJ, US [霍博肯, 紐澤西州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAndrew 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.
AbstractBring 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.
Table of contentsForeword Edward R.Canada, PhD ix
Foreword Joan Halifax Roshi, PhD xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
1 A Spiritual Helping Framework for Our Clients and Ourselves Beyond Spiritual Neutrality 1
2 Sitting with Clients on Uncertain Ground: Strong Back, Soft Front Beyond Evidence-Based Practice 9
3 Radical Acceptance of Clients, Context, and Self Beyond Carl Rogers’ Positive Regard 27
4 Mindfulness: Steadying the Mind and Being Present Beyond Empathy Skills and Counter-Transference 47
5 Curiosity, Compassionate Caring, and Inspiration Beyond Professional Warmth 71
6 Bearing Witness to Trauma and Pain Beyond Clinical Distance 97
7 The Middle Way: Embracing Contradiction and Paradox Beyond Dualistic Thinking 135
8 Having the Conversation: Making Space for Client Spirituality Beyond the Great Taboo 153
9 Dealing with Failure Beyond Cognitive Solutions and the Paradigm of Blame 163
10 Swimming Upstream with a Warrior’s Heart Beyond Working a Human Services Job 175
Appendix Brief Introduction to Buddhism and Zen 185
References 191
Index 195
ISBN9780470333099 (pbk); 9780470437711 (eb)
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