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By Andrew Bein

ISBN-10: 047033309X

ISBN-13: 9780470333099

ISBN-10: 0470386053

ISBN-13: 9780470386057

Deliver compassion, self-awareness, radical recognition, practitioner presence, and worrying to the relationships you've with you sufferers through the use of the recommendation within the Zen of assisting: non secular ideas for aware and Open-Hearted perform. As a psychological health practitioner, you are going to get pleasure from the shiny metaphors, case examples, own anecdotes, rates and poems during this booklet and use them as a non secular starting place to your expert perform. attach Zen Buddhism together with your human carrier and handle matters like facing your personal responses on your client’s trauma and soreness.

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It is the worshipping of and attachment to medical or so-called evidence-based models and the relative ignorance of broader paradigms that is problematic for the helping professions as well as for the clients whom these professionals serve. On the most general level, the language of evidence-based practice symbolizes the kind of invisibility that clients are accustomed to—especially the low-income and disenfranchised clients community-based practitioners often serve. Helping professional discourse now devalues client-centered approaches in lieu of evidence-based rhetoric.

We can categorize the client according to his or her race/ethnicity, mental illness diagnosis, presenting problems, strengths, substance use, behavioral transgressions, or milestone events or traumas; yet the environment of 9 E1C02_1 07/03/2008 10 10 SITTING WITH CLIENTS ON UNCERTAIN GROUND practitioner uncertainty and not-knowing most fundamentally characterizes the nature of our work with clients. We learn to embrace uncertainty and not knowing and actually make this reality work for us. We look outside the professional helper paradigms that say that practice is about connecting the dots between the characteristics of the other (assessment of the client) and our bag of tricks (clinical or meso/ macro interventions).

E1C01_1 07/02/2008 8 E1C02_1 07/03/2008 9 Chapter Two SITTING WITH CLIENTS ON UNCERTAIN GROUND: STRONG BACK, SOFT FRONT Beyond Evidence-Based Practice Allow it all to be, no need to grasp or push away. Present with each moment, the whole of you, body, mind and soul, opens to receive. —Danna Faulds This book is a little different from most social work, counseling, or psychotherapy books because it begins with the premise that we do not truly know who our client is or what we are doing when we engage in practice.

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