Organizational Behavior or The Therapists Workbook

Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations

Author: Ricky W Griffin

Organizational Behavior places core concepts of human behavior and industrial psychology in a real-world context. Strong end-of-chapter exercises, activities, plus an optional case and exercise book make this flexible text suitable for students at the undergraduate level. Likewise, the authors' emphasis on the latest organizational behavior research continues to attract graduate students. The Eighth Edition features significant structural and content changes, as well as an enhanced design—with more figures and tables, cartoons with captions, and 50 new color photos—for greater visual appeal. All Opening Cases and chapter-ending OB Cases for Discussion are new, featuring companies such as Ryanair, Merrill Lynch, and the Denver Broncos. Workplaces issues, featured in several new boxed inserts, focus on five pivotal topics in the modern workplace: technology, ethics, change, diversity, and globalization.

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The Therapist's Workbook: Self-Assessment, Self-Care, and Self-Improvement Exercises for Mental Health Professionals

Author: Jeffrey A Kottler

A Guide for Self-Reflection, Growth, and Change

Forbidden feelings, secret fears, stress, burnout-these are issues that many behavioral health care professionals treat in their clients everyday. But when it's the clinician who is overwhelmed with these issues, there is often no one-and nowhere to turn to. Untreated, these issues can affect therapists' ability to treat their clients effectively and put unneeded stress on their personal relationships. Based on the best-selling book On Being a Therapist, this much-needed workbook nourishes and challenges psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other counselors, guiding them gently on a journey of self-reflection and renewal. Jeffery Kottler's well-conceived guide offers behavioral health care professionals a concrete forum to address the crucial daily and long-term issues that inevitably arise in their work.

To help clinicians help themselves, Kottler has filled this hands-on guide with self-assessment exercises and activities-all designed to facilitate candid self-expression, growth, and change. Special attention is paid to potentially career threatening issues, such as sexual attraction to a client, fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of autonomy that many clinicians experience as a result of managed care and its constraints.

By actively engaging in the workbook activities and keeping a weekly journal, readers will come away with renewed motivation, energy, and creativity as clinicians, as well as a valuable written record of personal growth and reflection.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Confronting the Issues.
1. Being a Therapist.
2. Assessing Joys and Hardships.
3. Identifying Sources of Stress.
4. Impact of Personal Life on Professional Practice.
5. Determining Effects on Personal Life.
6. Making Sense of What You Do as a Therapist.
Part II: Take Care of Yourself.
Taking Care of Yourself.
7. Dealing with Countertransference Reactions.
8. Acknowledging and Overcoming Failures.
9. Creating More Fun and Joy in Therapeutic Work.
10. Avoiding and Countering Burnout.
11. Building and Maintaining a Support System.
12. Making Changes in Your Life.