Books by Jeffrey A. Kottler

For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. This thoroughly revised Sixth Edition, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues that tradition with an increased emphasis on self-care, teletherapy, and alternative service delivery.

Earmarked with the milestones, challenges and decisions that every educator faces, this book is indispensable for building meaningful relationships while nurturing your own passion for teaching.

Advice and inspiration for the real-life challenges of being a mental health professional.

Demonstrates how what we can finally control us - the terminal stage of the social disease of acquisitive desire for material things. Jeffrey Kottler makes clear that satisfaction comes not from owning possessions, but from their legitimate use for amusement, stimulation or learning.

Written for helping and leadership professionals, as well as the public, this book will give readers the knowledge and tools they need to understand the mechanisms and processes of lasting change.

Told through the experiences of those who "do good" as a vocation, the book reflects the realities of helping others throught those who are successful and flourishing in their work.

This title is a student-centered, inexpensive experientially based textbook for beginning courses in counselling and therapy. Written in an easy-to-read style, this text covers all the basic skills and core intervention helpers-in-training need to know in order to begin seeing clients.

Suitable for courses on Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, this book presents an experiential approach to understanding and applying theory.

Guides preservice and inservice teachers to be effective helpers in the context of the most common challenges, highlighting issues related to homelessness, grief and loss, and bullying and harassment. This book offers teachers techniques for taking better care of themselves and the students in their schools.

This book introduces the basic methodology of counseling, consulting, and communication skills, and the multiple roles principals must play in today's schools. It describes how to assess systematically the concerns and problems principals encounter with students, staff and parents.

Jeffrey A Kottler states that multiculturalism has become so politically correct that authentic feelings and honest opinions are reserved and limited to the teachers' lounge. What is described as sensitivity to diversity is often transformed into a degree of caution in which people no longer say what they really think. In this book, Kottler presents an honest, intimate, and provocative look at issues related to culture, and suggests ways in which teachers can make their classroom more vibrant and culturally responsive.

Discover more strategies for managing difficult students, with new information on aggressive/violent behavior, tips for establishing positive relationships with parents, and more.

They describe the conceptual building blocks of a healing encounter - including authentic engagement, projected images, and interactional patterns - and show how each of these can promote or impede a healthy and effective relationship.

This book is a primer of essential helping skills for students and professionals in the helping professions. It contains a brief chapter on theory and then covers the core skills, standard interventions, nature of relationships, developing rapport, as well as important issues regarding assessment and formulating a diagnosis.

Linking teaching to the unique human characteristics that each of us possess, this book helps teachers discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers. It includes: research-based teaching strategies; professional development activities; an in-depth look at parent-teacher evenings; and information on learning styles.

Demonstrates how even master therapists struggle with their own difficult cases and thorny professional challenges.