Stress in psychotherapists /

• Other Authors: Varma, Ved P.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
• Subjects: Psychotherapists > Job stress.; Psychotherapy.; Stress, Psychological.; Occupational Health.; PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General.; Electronic books.

Highlights the pressures experienced by psychotherapists and examines how the effects vary according to the problems they treat, the settings in which they work and their professional and personal development.

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; The experience of being a psychotherapist; Stress and the personality of the psychotherapist; Stress in trainee psychotherapists; Stresses in child psychotherapists; Risks to the worker with disturbed adolescents; Stress in psychotherapists who work with adults; Stress in psychotherapists who work with dysfunctional families; Stress in the therapist and the Bagshaw Syndrome; Stress in counsellors and therapists working with bereavement; Therapeutic work as a minister; Stresses in cognitive behavioural psychotherapists.