Author Description

This Book Provides A Comprehensive Overview Of The Professional Development Of Counselors And Therapists Over The Career Lifespan. Drawing On Their Own Extensive Experience As Psychotherapists, Supervisors, Teachers, And Researchers, As Well As From Their Own Extensive Study Of The Topic, The Authors Aim To Provide A Synthesis Of This Knowledge That All Counselors And Psychotherapists Will Find Valuable And Useful-- Theoretical And Empirical Foundations For The Study Of Practitioner Development. Perspectives On Rractitioners' Professional Development -- Models And Conceptions Of Learning, Expertise, And Decision Making -- Cultural Discourses Of Helping: Perspectives On What People Bring With Them When They Start Training In Therapy And Counseling A Qualitative Sudy Of Therapist And Counselor Development. The Novice Student Phase -- The Advanced Student Phase -- The Novice Professional Phase -- The Experienced Professional Phase -- The Senior Professional Phase -- Themes Of Therapists' Professional Development -- A Cyclical/trajectories Model Of Therapists' Professional Development And Stagnation -- A Developmentally Sensitive Approach To Supervision -- Expanding Views. Master Therapists: Explorations Of Expertise -- Therapist Professional Resilience -- Positive And Negative Cycles Of Practitioner Development: Evidence, Concepts, And Implications From A Collaborative Quantitative Study Of Psychotherapists. Michael Helge Rønnestad & Thomas Skovholt. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [336]-359) And Index.