Doing Better: Improving Clinical Skills and Professional Competence

This volume is intended to help practicing therapists and counselors, as well as students of these professions, to explore more fully and systematically the processes of self-improvement in their work and lives. It captures the reader's interest by discussing some of the therapist's personal and professional challenges in a refreshingly honest way. The book deals with a number of standard areas of self-supervision, such as self-monitoring and working with mentors, and provides a framework and a process for examining one's own strengths and weaknesses, then taking steps to improve excellence across a host of domains. Contents: Kottler, When Therapists Supervise Themselves. Kottler, Jones, The Natural and Unnatural Evolution of Therapist Development. Shepard, Morrow, Critical Self-monitoring. Jones, Harbach, A Syllabus for Self-supervision. Comstock, Duffy, Confronting Adversity. Wiseman, Scott, Hasta La Vista Baby - I'm Outta Here: Dealing with Boredom. Brinson, Cervantes, Recognizing Ethnic/Racial Biases and Discriminatory Practices through Self-supervision. Leary, Self-supervision in Youth Counseling. Casey, Jones, Technoconsultation: Getting Help in Far-flung Places. Sinclair, Monk, There is no 'I' in Self: A Discursive Approach