Transformational learning experiences : a conversation with counselors about their personal and professional developmental journeys

Transformational learning experiences : a conversation with counselors about their personal and professional developmental journeys / edited by Michelle Kelley Shuler, Elizabeth Keller-Dupree, and Katrina Cook.

"Embarking on a journey to become a counselor does more than prepare a person for a new and rewarding career. Relational, training and life experiences all contribute to transformational encounters that change who the person is and who he or she will be as a future counselor. Each counselor...

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Other Authors: Shuler, Michelle Kelley (Editor), Keller-Dupree, Elizabeth (Editor), Cook, Katrina (Counselor) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham [Maryland] : Hamilton Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Counseling.
Counselors.
PSYCHOLOGY > Applied Psychology.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > General.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Happiness.
SELF-HELP > Personal Growth > Success.
Counseling
Counselors
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Section One: Transformation in life experiences
  • Transformational cultural, religious, and spiritual experiences
  • Perceptions of new mothers and new professors in academic stories from the front lines
  • Meaningful turning points: a narrative exploration of how I became a counselor educator
  • History impacts reality: how parental divorce affected my beliefs about committed realtionships, and what I decided to do about it
  • Life's BIG decisions: should I start a family while pursuing an advanced degree?
  • Section Two: Transformation in relational experiences (self and others)
  • Critical moments in personal and professional development: searching for a sense of belonging
  • From the inside out: dealing effectively with client anger
  • Becoming a Puerto Rican counselor: how my twins served as my ethnic mirrors
  • Confronting the inposter: addressing anxiety and self-doubt as a counselor
  • In my skin
  • The invitation of a dying man
  • Embracing the dark
  • Crossing borders: understanding the Muslim experience from a non-Muslim perspective
  • Integrating the dark with the light: learning from a professional sanction
  • Section Three: Transformation in training experiences
  • The laws of aerodynamics don't pertain to bumble bees
  • Planting seeds, blossoming careers, and Birkenstocks
  • School counselors and illness-related trauma: personal reflections from an African outreach experience
  • Creative arts in clinical supervision
  • Research mentoring: an empowering process for the protege and mentor
  • Better together: a personal exploration of a co-counselor relationship
  • My process and development through group process
  • Counselor, now thyself
  • Learning to not work harder than your clients
  • To walk in humility: lesson learned in the Indian country.

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