Jeffrey A. Kottler Books

Every profession has trade secrets, and counseling is no exception. This engaging book shares cherished lessons from masters in the field, offering fresh ideas, noteworthy interventions, and valuable tricks that enhance professional effectiveness and personal satisfaction. It captures the wisdom of accomplished practitioners who have significantly influenced theoretical approaches, clinical innovations, and standards of practice. These master clinicians reveal ingenious methods and practical tips to better serve clients, discussing techniques that have remained largely private until now. They share creative breakthroughs, spiritual transcendences, monumental successes, and their own developmental adjustments over time, alongside unusual cases, disappointing failures, and disturbing deceptions. The stories of clients who have impacted their journeys add depth to their insights. Both new practitioners and veterans will discover innovative ways to stay engaged with clients. With its emphasis on practical knowledge and useful strategies, this book serves as a supplemental text for various introductory and advanced courses or as an inspirational guide for experienced counselors.

Featuring insights from over two dozen leading therapists, this collection reveals their most rewarding cases and the lessons learned from them. Each narrative combines interviews with recreated dialogue, offering a candid look at what defines success in therapy. The therapists share how their seminal cases influenced their theories and practices, all while ensuring client confidentiality. This unique compilation stands out by gathering the triumphs of renowned professionals in one volume, showcasing the transformative power of psychotherapy.

Published in 2010, this work by Routledge explores significant themes and concepts relevant to its field. As an imprint of Taylor & Francis, it contributes to scholarly discourse, offering insights and analysis that appeal to both academic and general audiences. The book is designed to engage readers with its in-depth research and thought-provoking content, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the subject matter.

This book takes an original approach to teaching about qualitative research by providing rich examples of stories of various student qualitative research experiences.

How do we explain the lurid fascination that most people experience when confronted by real or simulated acts of violence, murder, horror, and crime? This is the subject examined in this candid assessment of our dark vicarious thrills. Based on a series of interviews with perpetrators, victims, and "consumers" of violence, including several celebrities, the author of a best-selling book on serial killers explores what there is about this subject that draws such a wide audience. Unlike many other books that attempt to probe the murky psyches of deviant individuals, this book focuses on normal, average people who, despite themselves, enjoy getting close to the most forbidden, perverse side of destruction and evil. The persons interviewed range from homicide detectives and emergency room personnel to a heavyweight boxer and groupies of serial killers on death row. The author considers ideas from a variety of theories and research to explain our responses to violence, raises questions about the shifting line between normal and abnormal, evaluates the confusion and ambivalence that many people feel when witnessing others' suffering, and suggests future trends in society's attitudes toward violence.

Mental health professionals face unique challenges, including stress, burnout, and career-threatening issues like fear of failure and financial pressures from managed care. This book offers self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities aimed at fostering renewal and personal growth. It serves as a vital resource for clinicians to prioritize their own well-being while navigating the complexities of their profession, ultimately empowering them to better support their clients.

In this memoir, Kottler discloses how he triumphed over a troubled childhood to become a therapist who wrestles with the same issues as his clients. By focusing on this experience, the features which shaped his personal and professional development are detailed.

For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. This thoroughly revised Sixth Edition, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues that tradition with an increased emphasis on self-care, teletherapy, and alternative service delivery.

Focusing on essential helping skills, this primer serves both students and professionals in the helping fields. It includes a concise overview of therapeutic language and various approaches, followed by in-depth discussions on core skills and standard interventions. Key topics also encompass the nature of relationships, rapport-building, and critical issues related to assessment and diagnosis formulation, making it a valuable resource for effective practice in the helping professions.

What causes human beings to make a significant change in their lives, a transformative shift in thinking and actions? Research has shown that even in cases of unqualified success, a therapist and their client often have wildly different views on what made it work. Taking that as his starting point, Jeffrey Kottler leads the reader on an exploration of human behaviour, seeking to find out what it is that really makes a difference that can lead to transformative and lasting change