Understanding Self-Worth

A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98634-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Understanding Self-Worth is a guide for psychotherapists confounded by the struggle of working with clients who present with a pervasive pattern of denied self-worth.

When self-worth is perceived as conditional or denied altogether, clients may become complicit in creating a lost-worth story—the story they tell that keeps them denying their own worth. The denial may include generational abusive and/or intrusive injunctions that go against their lived truth.

Psychotherapists will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the importance of attending to the degree of trauma experienced when the client’s self-worth is separated from their individual truth. Moreover, where there is worth-based trauma, the psychotherapist will learn models both for helping clients gently and honestly reestablish a worthy and true sense of self and for consciously guiding clients towards recovery of human worth as a birthright.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Chris

Daigneault, Dawna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Theoretical Framework  2. Human Dignity and Wellness  3. Congruent Sense of Self  4. Worth-Conscious Theory (WCT) Constructs  5. Realized Self-Worth, Lost-Worth Stories, and Trauma-Informed Care  6. Systemic Exigencies and The Four Pillars of Self-Worth  7. The Four Quadrants  8. Psychotherapy Techniques

Über Autor(innen)

Dawna Daigneault, EdS, LPC, CCTP, is a writer, speaker, and professional counselor with twenty years of experience. She specializes in serving clients with self-worth challenges that complicate client trauma.

Chris Brown, MS, PhD, is professor emerita in the Psychology and Counseling Department at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is a licensed psychologist with more than forty years of experience providing psychotherapy to culturally diverse populations.