A Personal Guide to a Career in the Mental Health Field edition by Gary E Bloom Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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A personal guide to what it’s like to train for a career in counseling and psychotherapy, and develop a career in the profession. It covers schooling, training, counselor identity, career choices, finances, and privacy laws. It includes an appendix of additional essays that gives flavor to the profession. The guide is opinionated and candid.
A Personal Guide to a Career in the Mental Health Field edition by Gary E Bloom Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
The author of this book possesses deep experience in mental health work. His blunt analysis of the training and theories of therapists should prove helpful to any person considering a role in the mental health professions. The text reserves special criticism for psychoanalysis, for which the author sports no small disdain. Bloom urges a deeply interpersonal approach to therapy, forsaking the proliferation of psycho-methodologies the prime purpose of which is to garner a professional reputation for the inventor. It is rare to find among mental health professionals a person willing to speak with candor about the deficiencies of the field's training and orientation, since all are trained not to rankle but rather to gently smooth over irritations. Bloom is that rare person.Product details
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A Personal Guide to a Career in the Mental Health Field edition by Gary E Bloom Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Bloom makes an important contribution to would-be mental health professionals with this highly readable little book. He outlines options and provides just enough historical context to guide the novice toward making informed choices about specific professional identities within the field and in investments of their time, effort and money. The tone is personal, accessible and blunt. If Bloom's cynicism speaks too loudly to you in early pages, keep reading--you will find yourself well cared-for. Bloom's gift for paradox and metaphor manages to simultaneously infuse a complex-enough subject with both grounded insight and playful storytelling which makes reading the book not only informative but fun. He asks and then answers important questions that those interested in the field may not yet have thought of but most certainly will confront along the way toward becoming an employable professional. While I would caution the reader against swallowing whole his biases against certain depth therapeutic approaches, his astute knowledge of elements of change in psychotherapy is valuable enough to deserve a book of its own. This is amply demonstrated in possibly my favorite part of the book, the appendix, in which he shares counseling session vignettes.
I applaud Bloom's expose' of marketing strategies that repackage therapeutic approaches with trendy catch phrases in a field where truly creative inquiry and truth ought to be everyone's main concern. Bloom's intelligent, detailed yet concise, candid, and at base deeply compassionate accounting of how things work in the mental health field should be required reading for undergrads and other seriously contemplating this work.
Having once been supervised by Mr. Bloom while working toward my MFT licensure, I can say that what you see is what you get. And what you read in his guide is what you would meet in person – a forthright (some would say brutally honest, or possibly honestly brutal), opinionated presence. Some may read Mr. Bloom’s opinion as offensive.
I would challenge a fellow reader to ask oneself “If I am so offended, what is the cause of the defensiveness? Could there be any truth to Mr. Bloom’s statements?” For me, the challenge was in statements about psychiatry in relation to Big Pharma. As I have seen some (at least a few) medications change my clients’ lives in the positive, I see that there are then, benefits. Then I realized my defensiveness and that Mr. Bloom is pointing at a system that has grown to become too big, too powerful and too exploitative to our clients. In that regard, I agree with him. And I respect his willingness to mentor for us all, the purity of frankness.
Gary Bloom is a therapist who really has been around the block – many times, having experiences across the board in the mental health fields. As you read further, you find he has great compassion – for mental health clients, yes, but also for those who want to make a difference and enter a field that allows them to help others. Mr. Bloom has a gift to give future mental health professionals, which is the gift of awareness – what one really can expect when entering this profession.
Mr. Bloom himself learned from his supervision with Dr. Robert Suczek that, the “goal (as a therapist) is to understand.” Mr. Bloom then passes on to us his own statements of compassion, as he did for me in supervision. He encourages us all to think critically before diving into the helping professions and adds, “How will you know that you’re destined to be a counselor? Here’s one way if you read this whole guide, and you’re still enthusiastic about being or becoming a counselor, then nothing you’ve read here will discourage you.”
The appendices of this guide are worthy reads, filled with unique experiences that add justification to Mr. Blooms afore-written statements and opinions.
Finally, a quote from Mr. Bloom, “Be the proctologist of counselors” – I’ll leave this quote hanging, as to inspire the curiosity of future readers.
The author of this book possesses deep experience in mental health work. His blunt analysis of the training and theories of therapists should prove helpful to any person considering a role in the mental health professions. The text reserves special criticism for psychoanalysis, for which the author sports no small disdain. Bloom urges a deeply interpersonal approach to therapy, forsaking the proliferation of psycho-methodologies the prime purpose of which is to garner a professional reputation for the inventor. It is rare to find among mental health professionals a person willing to speak with candor about the deficiencies of the field's training and orientation, since all are trained not to rankle but rather to gently smooth over irritations. Bloom is that rare person.
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