The Therapist in the Real World, Jeffrey A. Kottler
The Therapist in the Real World, Jeffrey A. Kottler
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

The Therapist in the Real World
What You Never Learn in Graduate School (But Really Need to Know)

Author: Jeffrey A. Kottler

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2023

Synopsis

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, and expertise, Jeffrey A. Kottler covers crucial but underaddressed challenges that therapists face in their professional lives at all levels of experience.

PART I, "More Than You Bargained For," covers the changing landscape of the mental health profession and the limits and merits of professional training.

PART II, "Secrets and Neglected Challenges," explores important issues that are often overlooked during training years, including the ways our clients become our greatest teachers, the power of storytelling, and the role of deception in psychotherapy.

And in PART III, "Ongoing Personal and Professional Development," Kottler focuses on areas in which even the most experienced therapists can continue to hone their talents and maximize their potential, laying out effective tips to navigate organization politics, and much more.

As honest and inspiring as it is revealing, this book offers therapists and counselors at all levels of experience key ideas for thriving after formal education.

About Jeffrey A. Kottler

Jeffrey A. Kottler is a professor in the department of counseling at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Last Victim, Divine Madness, Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy, and Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own. Jeffrey is also head of the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which provides scholarships for at-risk girls in Nepal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 24, 2017

As I get ready to transition away from consultation and back into full time therapy at the end of January, I’ve been craving some literature to match my life. As always, my annual holiday Barnes & Noble trip delivered. Whenever I think about clinical work, I find myself wrestling with two very contr......more

Goodreads review by Christie on February 10, 2018

3.5/5 Overall this book was pretty okay. I didn’t like it as much as the Yalom books though. I think that’s because the tone was different. This didn’t feel like an empathic conversation between therapists. It felt like more of an informational text. That doesn’t make it bad but it does make it hard......more

Goodreads review by Dove on January 29, 2024

Loved this book! Another practical read that helps prepare me for my career as a therapist. I liked a lot of the lessons. For instance, with supervision, I liked his discussion on how during placement/schooling, we are just saying the right terms so our supervisor is happy but after we graduate, we......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 09, 2024

I felt like most of this book was directed at a seasoned therapist, so reading this as a graduate student who is only one semester into her program was interesting. It was a really informational text, without a many real client examples, which I would’ve liked to see more of. It didn’t hold my atten......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List