The Secrets of Exceptional Counselors.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface: Tricks of the Trade -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: A Tough Lesson that Forever Changed the Way I Work -- Secrets and Best Practices During First Contact -- A Cherished Secret -- Chapter 2: Admitting You're Lost -- Wandering in the Dark -- When You Feel Awkward and Lost -- Behind the Curtain -- Reconciling the Need for Definitive Answers With the Realities of Uncertainty -- Chapter 3: Theories are Simply Flexible Frameworks -- Theories are Stories to Explain Things -- Theoretical Purity is No More -- Some Notable Figures Chime in with their Secrets -- Chapter 4: Developing your Own Voice -- Conflicts and Arguments that Stifle Individual Voices -- Sorting Out Clanging Voices -- Going Beyond the Master -- The Secret to Developing a Signature Style of Practice -- Chapter 5: Assessing and Diagnosing Differently -- Collaborative Assessment -- Looking Backward to Move Forward -- Assessing Strengths and Resources -- And Then What Happened? -- Some Essential Assessment Questions -- Chapter 6: Deep, Deep Listening -- Love is a Four-Letter Word -- Listen to What is Not being Said-and Other Subtleties -- Being Fully Present -- Mindfulness: The Gift That Keeps on Giving -- Deep Listening has Never Been More Important -- Chapter 7: Don't Forget the Context and Culture -- A Reconceptualization of What Culture Means -- Cultural Constructions -- Challenging Personal Assumptions and Colonized Discourse -- Chapter 8: There are No Difficult Clients, Only Difficult Counselors -- Be Careful What You Ask People -- Blame the Client -- On Demonstrating Flexibility and Adaptability in the Face of So-Called Resistance -- Outside Influences on the Therapeutic Relationship -- Rules of Engagement With Challenging Clients -- Chapter 9: Boundaries Opaque and Permeable.

Honoring the Client's Theory of Change -- Relational Protections and Transformations -- The Value of Experiential Learning and Boundary Considerations -- Chapter 10: It Takes Chutzpah -- The Food Chain -- Going Beyond What is Convenient and Familiar -- Personal and Professional Development -- Chapter 11: Clients Lie-a Lot-and It Might Not Matter -- What to Believe? -- When to Challenge, When to Question, When to Wait -- The Meanings of Deception -- Dark Secrets -- Chapter 12: Techniques Sometimes Matter -- The More the Better? -- Not a Technique but a Way of Being with Clients -- When It's Time to Do Something -- Chapter 13: More Advanced Techniques that are Rarely Mentioned -- Experience Counts-All Kinds of Experience -- Advanced Techniques that May be Common but are Very, Very Difficult to Do Well -- Masters Reveal Some Secrets -- Chapter 14: Creativity and Learning Far Afield -- The Power of Direct Experience -- Accessing Alternative Modalities -- Impediments to Creativity -- Secrets to Accessing Greater Creativity -- Chapter 15: Who Changes Whom? -- Some Questions to Consider -- The Stories We Hear -- Who Impacts Us and Why? -- Chapter 16: Recovering from Mistakes and Learning from Failures -- Failures that are Never to Be Forgotten -- What is Bad Counseling Anyway? -- Processing Mistakes and Failures -- Chapter 17: Practicing What you Preach -- Our Authentic Selves in Action -- Exceptional Counselors: Who are They . . . and How Do I Become One? -- Appendix: Some Challenging Questions for Aspiring Exceptional Counselors -- Technical Support -- End User License Agreement.

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