Becoming a therapist : on the path to mastery / Thomas M. Skovholt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opening up your life to the excitement of the therapy and counseling professions -- Novice advantages -- The curse of ambiguity and other ills and what to do about them -- Who am I becoming? the unfolding practitioner self -- Developing habits of culturally competent practice / Michael Goh, Thomas M. Skovholt, Ava Yang, and Michael Starkey -- Issues, concerns, and tips as antidotes to novice stress -- Becoming a resilient practioner -- The cycle of caring / Thomas M. Skovholt and Michelle Trotter-Mathisen -- The pracitioner's learning triangle: practice, research/theory, and personal life / Thomas M. Skovholt and Michael Starkey -- The path toward mastery: phases and themes of development /Thomas M. Skovholt and Michael H. R{uEBA5}stad -- Practitioner mastery and expertise / Thomas M. Skovholt, Mark Vaughan, and Len Jennings -- Vertical and horizontal nurturance for the novice: clinical supervisors and many other peers / Thomas M. Skovholt and Yoonhee Sung -- Worlds apart: the academic research culture and the therapy practice culture and the search for common space -- Epilogue: promise and meaning of the work.