Resilience-Centered Counseling

Designed to accompany the textbook of the same name, Resilience-Centered Counseling: A Practical Workbook presents students with a collection of engaging invitations that help them explore their personal and counselor identities. It invites readers to take moments of deep self-reflection and unpack their own processes and ways of knowing.

The workbook highlights major themes addressed in the textbook and aims to move the reader through the development process of becoming a social justice-centered, resilient-focused counselor. Verbal and written prompts invite readers to engage in reflection with pen and paper or to have a conversation with another individual. Somatic invitations challenge readers to engage in processing themselves holistically through their bodies. Finally, imagery exploration provides them with the opportunity to use creative or artistic expression to process information. The majority of the exercises and invitations focus on relational thinking and bringing together collective voices and perspectives. Specific topical areas include the counselor as healer, interdependency, trauma and resilience, postmodernism, feminism and resilience, resilience-centered relationships, a resilient social justice stance, wonderment, strengthening, and more.

Resilience-Centered Counseling: A Practical Workbook helps readers explore and discuss in greater detail the idea of resilience and how it is manifested through different lenses.