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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118443810 ISBN 13: 9781118443811

Publisher: Wiley, 2014

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

ROBERT J. WICKS, PsyD, is a professor at Loyola University Maryland. He has authored and edited over 40 books on personal and professional wellbeing. Dr. Wicks has inspired large audiences through transformative public speaking engagements across the country.

ELIZABETH A. MAYNARD, PhD, is the Director of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Dr. Maynard regularly speaks on spiritual-psychological integration, human sexuality, prejudice, and coping.

From the Back Cover

Holistic self-renewal for your clients, your community, and you

When it comes to helping others, your most important tool is your own wellbeing. The most generous and giving members of society are often the psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and others who have made it their life’s work to help others. Helping people means, above all, giving them the tools and skills they need to heal themselves by practicing self-renewal for mind, body, and spirit. Clinician’s Guide to Self-Renewal is your essential reference for understanding these tools and skills―and for using them in your own personal and professional development.

In this book, you’ll discover why clinicians who practice self-renewal in their own lives are likely to be more positive, more present, and in a better position to model wellbeing for their clients. Recovering from trauma and burnout is a project and a process that clinicians need to undertake for themselves. Join with your clients in the process of growing and thriving by supporting their self-renewal as well as your own. Selections from talented authors cover renewal in all its dimensions. Topics include:

• Promoting physical wellbeing
• Healthy eating, exercise, and sleeping habits
• Sexuality and self-renewal
• Religion and spirituality
• Zen therapy, mindfulness, and meditation
• Group and family self-healing
• Posttraumatic self-care

This essential guide will help you learn how to grow and thrive in your own life and how to aid others in their own journeys of self-renewal.

From the Inside Flap

Holistic self-renewal for your clients, your community, and you

When it comes to helping others, your most important tool is your own wellbeing. The most generous and giving members of society are often the psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and others who have made it their life’s work to help others. Helping people means, above all, giving them the tools and skills they need to heal themselves by practicing self-renewal for mind, body, and spirit. Clinician’s Guide to Self-Renewal is your essential reference for understanding these tools and skills—and for using them in your own personal and professional development.

In this book, you’ll discover why clinicians who practice self-renewal in their own lives are likely to be more positive, more present, and in a better position to model wellbeing for their clients. Recovering from trauma and burnout is a project and a process that clinicians need to undertake for themselves. Join with your clients in the process of growing and thriving by supporting their self-renewal as well as your own. Selections from talented authors cover renewal in all its dimensions. Topics include:

• Promoting physical wellbeing
• Healthy eating, exercise, and sleeping habits
• Sexuality and self-renewal
• Religion and spirituality
• Zen therapy, mindfulness, and meditation
• Group and family self-healing
• Posttraumatic self-care

This essential guide will help you learn how to grow and thrive in your own life and how to aid others in their own journeys of self-renewal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118443810
• ISBN 13: 9781118443811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Wicks Robert J., Maynard Elizabeth A.