The Compassionate Practitioner
How to create a successful and rewarding practice
Published on 21. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-84819-222-5 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on the importance of relationship-building, this handbook explains how to turn new clients into regulars and make your practice flourish.
If you can create trust, loyalty and a sense of safety in new clients, they are more likely to commit to the further appointments needed to experience the healing you have to offer. This book considers how best to enhance the client's experience at every stage of the consultation through compassion and mindfulness. It is full of practical advice about everything from creating the right ambience in the therapy room to maintaining a positive attitude through self-reflection.
This will be a valued support for students and professionals working in a wide range of complementary and alternative therapies, as well as art, music and drama therapists.
If you can create trust, loyalty and a sense of safety in new clients, they are more likely to commit to the further appointments needed to experience the healing you have to offer. This book considers how best to enhance the client's experience at every stage of the consultation through compassion and mindfulness. It is full of practical advice about everything from creating the right ambience in the therapy room to maintaining a positive attitude through self-reflection.
This will be a valued support for students and professionals working in a wide range of complementary and alternative therapies, as well as art, music and drama therapists.
Reviews / Votes
Most of us enter the therapeutic relationship with a qualification in use of specialized healing techniques, yet little or no idea about how to navigate either the psychological implications of the work, or indeed the hands-on business of setting up a practice. Jane Wood investigates with clarity, tackling issues theoretically, as well as giving personal development techniques to implement changes that should act from within to without. It seems to me that she has left few stones unturned. More importantly, she has given us a definitive self-help manual where one has certainly been needed. -- Misha Norland, homeopathic practitioner of 40 years' experience, teacher and author There is a lot in this book that practitioners from any modality will benefit from... It is very well written; professional but personal at the same time. I highly recommend it. -- Edward Obaidey, Acupuncture Practitioner, Edward Obaidey Acupuncture Clinic, Tokyo, Japan The author, a retired homeopathic practitioner as well as a teacher, supervisor, and workshop facilitator understands the importance of the therapeutic relationship and the work is well referenced... It deserves, in my view to become a standard reference book for students as well as an essential "bible" for experienced practitioners... I strongly recommend this book to both the experienced and the inexperienced in the confident belief that both will have something to learn from it. -- The HomeopathMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
13 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84819-222-5 (9781848192225)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
08/2014
Singing Dragon
€21.99
Available for download
Person
Jane Wood is a teacher, supervisor, workshop facilitator and retired homeopathic practitioner. She is a supervisor and teacher of reflective practice at the University of Westminster and is the head of practitioner development and reflective practice at the International School of Homeopathy, London. She lives in London, UK.
Content
Introduction. 1. The Power of Positive Thinking. 2. Before the Patient Arrives. 3. Relationship Models in the Consulting Room. 4. Safety and the Working Agreement. 5. Mindfulness. 6. Skills for Case Taking. 7. Reducing Your Prejudices and Limiting Beliefs. 8. Planning the Way Forward. 9. Setting and Maintaining Boundaries. 10. Solving Ethical Dilemmas. 11. Finishing the Session and Closure. 12. Self-Care for the Practitioner. 13. The Self-reflective Journal. Index.