Jeffrey Kottler: 33 books
by Jeffrey Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. In this thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition, Jeffrey Kottler explores many of the challenges that therapists...
Essere un eccellente psicoterapeuta
Scienza e buone prassi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Questo libro, unico nel suo genere, mostra come trarre ispirazione dai “maestri” della psicoterapia per spingere verso l’eccellenza la propria pratica clinica. Combinando i risultati di centinaia di studi precedenti, interviste con una vasta gamma di famosi terapeuti e capiscuola, esperienze...
Therapy Over 50
Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Traditional training in counseling and psychotherapy makes minimal distinctions on the ages of the client and therapist in the treatment process. Therapy Over 50: Aging Issues in Psychotherapy and the Therapist's Life highlights how therapy is frequently a very different process for the older client...
The Last Victim
A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.
The Assassin and the Therapist
An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Many therapists have likely worked with a client who has caused the therapist to confront his most cherished beliefs, or has changed the therapist in ways that forever altered the way he performs therapy, looks at the world, and sees himself. The author of this book found himself in just such a situation,...
Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told
Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people's lives. Drawing on material from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, neurophysiology, media and communication studies, narrative inquiry,...
Change
What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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...
What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should
Applications to Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity of qualified...
by Jeffrey A. Kottler, Ellen Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
By necessity, today's teachers do much more than deliver instruction. In the classroom, on the playground, or even in the parking lot, teachers are often called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' social and emotional needs, drawing from instinct more than anything else.
In...
by Jeffrey A. Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Advice and inspiration for the real-life challenges of being a mental health professional.
Graduate school and professional training for therapists often focus on academic preparation, but there’s a lot more that a therapist needs to know to be successful after graduation. With warmth, wisdom,...
The Client Who Changed Me
Stories of Therapist Personal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and countertransference. However, while these professional hazards are very...
by Dr. Jeffrey A. Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people's lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and...
Learning Group Leadership
An Experiential Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
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...
Bad Therapy
Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss...