Clinician's Guide to Self-Renewal

ROBERT J. WICKS, PsyD, is a professor at Loyola University Maryland. He has authored and edited over 40 books on personal and professional wellbeing. Dr. Wicks has inspired large audiences through transformative public speaking engagements across the country.ELIZABETH A. MAYNARD, PhD, is the Director of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Dr. Maynard regularly speaks on spiritual-psychological integration, human sexuality, prejudice, and coping.

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• About the Book xiAbout the Editors xiiiAbout the Authors xvSelf-Renewal Themes in Psychotherapy: An Introduction xxiiiPart I Self-Renewal and the Clinician1 Growth, Love, and Work in Psychotherapy: Sources of Therapeutic Talent and Clinician Self-Renewal 3Helene Nissen-Lie and David E. Orlinsky2 Renewing One’s Self-Care Sensibilities: Distress, Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization, and Self-Renewal 25Jeffrey E. Barnett3 Self-Care for Clinicians in the Disaster Context 45Rick Williamson and Patricia A. Engert4 Clinical Supervision and Self-Renewal 61Craig S. Cashwell and Jodi L. BartleyPart II Alonetime, Mindfulness, the Sabbath, Natural Empathy: Loving Kindness, Zen Therapy, and Self-Renewal5 Valuing and Accessing Alonetime: Silence, Solitude, and Reflection in the Life of the Clinician 85Robert J. Wicks6 Keeping the Sabbath: Privileging Being Beyond Doing 103Jill L. Snodgrass7 Self-Renewal Through Natural Empathy: Caring for Ourselves and Others 119Cheryl A. Giles8 Mind and Heart: Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation for Therapists 131Kathleen Gregory, Geoffrey Newbegin, and Margot J. Schofield9 Zen Therapy 153David BrazierPart III Trauma, Growth, Healing, Patience, Forgiveness, Courage, and the Process of Renewal10 Blooming in the Night: Themes of Self-Renewal in Posttraumatic Growth 175Mary Beth Werdel11 Tell the Story: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing 189Suzanne Mayer12 Patience and Self-Renewal 205Sarah A. Schnitker, Amber E. Blews, and Jessica A. Foss13 Forgiveness and Self-Renewal 229Matthew J. Hirshberg and Robert D. Enright14 Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Courage for Self-Renewal 251Cynthia L. S. Pury and Kaye N. GlennonPart IV Theoretical Approaches to Self-Renewal: Group, Marital, and Family System, Dialectical, Behavioral, and the Ways Paradigm15 The Group as a Medium for Personal and Professional Renewal 265Virginia Brabender and Courtney Slater16 Renewal in Marital and Family Systems 285Paul Giblin17 A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Approach to Self-Renewal 301Maria Mouratidis18 Self-Renewal and the Ways Paradigm 315Sharon E. ChestonPart V Spirituality and Self-Renewal19 Spiritual Coping Resources for the Self-Renewal of Clients and Therapists 335Melissa D. Falb and Kenneth I. Pargament20 Religion and Spirituality: A Source of Renewal for Families 355Gina M. Brelsford and Jaelyn R. FarrisPart VI Topics in Self-Renewal21 Self-Renewal With African Americans in Psychotherapy 369Deborah G. Haskins22 Clergy Self-Renewal Themes in Clinical Practice 397Thomas E. Rodgerson23 Self-Renewal Among Gay and Lesbian Adults 421Elizabeth A. Maynard and Katie E. Katuzny24 Renewing One’s Ethical Sensibilities 439Jeffrey E. Barnett25 Sexual Attraction and Self-Renewal in Psychotherapy 461Stephen W. Simpson and Jonathan D. ReevesGoing Forward: A Brief Epilogue 475Robert J. Wicks and Elizabeth A. MaynardAuthor Index 477Subject Index 489