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The Inner Life of the Counselor

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The Inner Life of the Counselor by Robert J. Wicks explores the psychological and spiritual dimensions of counseling professionals. It delves into the essential self-awareness and personal growth that counselors require to effectively support their clients. Through insightful reflection, the book highlights the balance between professional duties and personal introspection for those in the helping professions.
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This book may appeal to you if you are intrigued by the emotional and psychological aspects of being a counsellor. It offers insights into how counsellors can nurture their inner life while maintaining balance in their professional roles. Perfect for those interested in the philosophy and psychology behind caring for others while also caring for oneself.

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To feed the interior life of the counselor is not only a sensible act for the helper, it is a true act of generosity for those they serve as well. This book directs counselors to consider their own sense of self and how they are-and are not-living a personally and professionally meaningful, mindful life.

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One of the greatest gifts helping professionals can share with others is a sense of their own peace. However, retaining and renewing a sense of a healthy perspective requires not only self-care strategies, but also an awareness of basic profound, yet simple, wisdom themes.

The Inner Life of the Counselor presents classic and contemporary wisdom that examines and explores each of these themes in a way that both professional and non-professional helpers will find revealing and meaningful in understanding their own journey.

Informed by the author's over thirty years of experience as a therapist, mentor, and clinical supervisor of professional helpersβ€”as well as by his expertise in resiliency and prevention of secondary stressβ€”The Inner Life of the Counselor thoughtfully looks at those elements that encourage sustained personal growth and professional development, such as self-care, stress management, and mindfulness.

Lively, practical, and marked by an elegant sense of simplicity, this nurturing book demonstrates how exploring the inner life can lead counsellors to new wisdom and inner peaceβ€”not only for themselves but also for those who come to them for relief and insight. It is an invitation to pause, reflect, renew, and navigate one of contemporary society's most challenging yet rewarding professions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118193747

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 September 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 185.0mm

Weight: 286g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Dr. ROBERT J. WICKS received his doctorate in psychology from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. Presently, he is a professor at Loyola University Maryland. He has spoken on Capitol Hill to members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff, and at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and Harvard's Children's Hospital on his major area of expertise: the prevention of secondary stress. He has also addressed thousands of educators and professionals, spoken at the FBI Academy, and addressed caregivers in China, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa. In his practice, Dr. Wicks focuses on working with psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, educators, relief workers, lawyers, corporate executives, persons in full-time ministry, and members of the military. He has published over forty-five books for both professionals and the general public, and is the coauthor, with Mary Beth Werdel, of Primer on Posttraumatic Growth: An Introduction and Guide (Wiley). Visit his website at robertjwicks.com.

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