What You Never Learned in Graduate School A Survival Guide for Therapists

by Hazler, Richard J.; Kottler, Jeffrey A.

• ISBN13: 9780393702422
• ISBN10: 0393702421
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This provocative book examines the realities of clinical practice for which therapists are unprepared. Therapists are struggling to adapt both to their profession's changing landscape (such as the advent of managed care and the burgeoning of new theories and treatment approaches) and to demands on their professional and personal success. This book explores many issues that are rarely addressed in formal educational experiences for example, organizational politics, the negative "side effects" of being a therapist, keeping up with cutting-edge innovations, sustaining a private practice, and planning for the future and offers concrete suggestions for adapting to the world outside graduate school. Personal, easygoing writing style, the hallmark of Kottler's previous bestselling books, makes this an engaging and provocative read.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
SECTION I: MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR	3	(104)
1 Seismic Shifts	3	(23)
2 Walking Water	26	(23)
3 Limits and Merits of Professional Training	49	(24)
4 Organized Confusion	73	(22)
5 Enough is Enough!	95	(12)
SECTION II: MOVING FORWARD	107	(126)
6 Maintaining a Private Practice	107	(15)
7 Upgrading Your Presentations	122	(19)
8 Publishing for Profit and Pleasure	141	(22)
9 Surviving Organizational Politics	163	(24)
10 Therapist, Heal Thyself	187	(21)
11 Getting Most from Supervision	208	(18)
12 Being Mentored	226	(7)
References	233	(6)
Index	239