The zen of helping: spiritual principles for mindful and open-hearted practice

The fields of psychology, counseling, and social work are adopting many principles from Zen and the Eastern Wisdom traditions. Written by a therapist and dedicated Zen Buddhist practitioner, The Zen of Helping directs readers to the heart of helping relationships that involves compassion, self-awareness, radical acceptance, practitioner presence, and caring. Utilizing vivid metaphors, case examples, personal anecdotes, as well as quotes and poems, mental health professionals will find this book to be a spiritual foundation for practice with a social justice emphasis, connecting Zen Buddhism with human service practice. INDICE: Foreword by Edward R. Canda. Foreword by Joan Halifax Roshi. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. A Spiritual Framework for Our Clients and Ourselves (Beyond Spiritual Neutrality). 2. Sitting with Clients on Uncertain Ground: Strong Back, Soft Front (Beyond Evidence-based Practice). 3. Radical Acceptance of Clients, Context and Self (Beyond Carl Rogers' Positive Regard). 4. Mindfulness: Steadying the Mind and Being Present (Beyond Empathy Skills and Counter-Transference). 5. Curiosity, Compassionate Caring, and Inspiration (Beyond Professional Warmth). 6. Bearing Witness to Trauma and Pain (Beyond Clinical Distance). 7. The Middle Way: Embracing Contradiction and Paradox (Beyond DualisticThinking). 8. Having the Conversation: Making Space for Client Spirituality (Beyond the Great Taboo). 9. Dealing with Failure (Beyond Cognitive Solutions and the Paradigm of Blame). 10. Swimming Upstream with a Warrior's Heart (Beyond Working a Human Services Job). Appendix. Brief Introduction to Buddhism and Zen. References. Index. Author Description.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-33309-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 27/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés