Reassuring and thought-provoking reflections for everyday reading. Even with the best intentions, it can be difficult to take time out of our busy days to reflect on our experiences, lean on the wisdom of others, and draw inspiration from the world around us. Filled with bite-sized passages that enlighten and stir contemplation, this pocket guide offers the perfect, thoughtful start to your day. Choose from over 150 reflections on themes ranging from relationships, change, self-awareness, and health, to problem solving, mindfulness, family, forgiveness, and more. Carefully compiled from books by leading helping professionals, the passages offer readers insight and comfort from the best therapists around. Thought-provoking questions for self-discovery follow each entry, providing a source of enlightenment and contemplation throughout the day. The end of the book offers a series of guided visualizations with scripted exercises for readers wanting more direction and engagement. Whether you are seeking connection, reassurance, or motivation for self-improvement, the welcoming, inspiring ideas in this book will help you get there

Offering a focus that is lacking (or not clearly evident) in most spirituality books, Dudley addresses specific ways of incorporating spirituality into practice and integrates many of the contributions of other writers into an overall eclectic practice approach. His approach revolves around many of the core competencies of the EPAS accreditation (CSWE, 2008). Most of the core competencies are addressed with an emphasis on professional identity, ethical practice, critical thinking, diversity, practice contexts, and, a major practice framework of the book, the practice stages of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Reassuring and thought-provoking reflections for everyday reading.