Andrew Bein

The Zen of Helping (eBook, PDF)

Spiritual Principles for Mindful and Open-Hearted Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bring 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470386057
• Artikelnr.: 37291680

Autorenporträt

Andrew 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Edward Canda Foreword by Joan Halifax Roshi Preface
Acknowledgements Ch 1: A Spiritual Framework for Our Clients and Ourselves
Beyond Spiritual Neutrality Ch 2: Sitting with Clients on Uncertain Ground:
Strong Back, Soft Front Beyond Evidence-based Practice Ch 3: Radical
Acceptance of Clients, Context and Self Beyond Carl Rogers' Positive Regard
Ch 4: Mindfulness: Steadying the Mind and Being Present Beyond Empathy
Skills and Counter-Transference Ch 5: Curiosity, Compassionate Caring, and
Inspiration Beyond Professional Warmth Ch 6: Bearing Witness to Trauma and
Pain Beyond Clinical Distance Ch 7: The Middle Way: Embracing Contradiction
and Paradox Beyond Dualistic Thinking Ch 8: Having the Conversation: Making
Space for Client Spirituality Beyond the Great Taboo Ch 9: Dealing with
Failure Beyond Cognitive Solutions and the Paradigm of Blame Ch 10:
Swimming Upstream with a Warrior's Heart Beyond Working a Human Services
Job Appendix: Brief Introduction to Buddhism and Zen References Index
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