Velen van ons zijn ons leven lang op zoek naar authenticiteit. We streven naar een perfecte balans, waarbij we enerzijds hopen dat wat we doen en zeggen weerspiegelt wat we denken en voelen, en anderzijds dat ons denken en voelen weerspiegelt wie we werkelijk zijn. In Authenticiteit presenteert psycholoog Stephen Joseph zijn frisse en inspirerende kijk op jezelf zijn, met praktische adviezen en oefeningen voor de lezer. Op basis van de wijsheid van de grote filosofen, inzichten en onderzoe...

This authoritative overview of the main approaches to counselling and psychotherapy offers a uniquely concise and systematic framework for understanding and comparing different models of working.Bringing together the philosophical and practical elements of a wide range of psychological therapies, Stephen Joseph examines the assumptions and values that unerpin different understandings of mental distress and the various approaches to psychological assessment and treatment. He sets hi...

Jeder von uns wird als Original geboren. Und je mehr wir uns in dieser Einzigartigkeit ausdrücken, desto glücklicher sind wir. Wir kommen in unsere Kraft, finden Sinn und Bestimmung, kurz: wir blühen auf, wie aktuelle wissenschaftliche Studien belegen. Stephen Joseph, einer der führenden Vertreter der Positiven Psychologie, hat viele Jahre über Authentizität geforscht. Seine Erkenntnisse, kombiniert mit Fallstudien und philosophischer Weisheit, bilden die Grundlage für sein Drei-Schritte-Ü...

Ein Buch, das Mut macht: Die neue Psychologie des posttraumatischen WachstumsSchicksalsschläge müssen uns nicht aus der Bahn werfen. Sie können vielmehr neue Stärken und Lebensperspektiven eröffnen und einen Reifungsprozess anstoßen. Dieses hoffnungsvolle Fazit zieht Stephen Joseph, einer der Wegbereiter der Psychotraumatologie, aus seiner jahrzehntelangen Arbeit mit traumatisierten Menschen. Sein Buch schlägt einen weiten Bogen: Es schildert Fallgeschichten, macht...

The best minds in positive psychology survey the state of the fieldPositive Psychology in Practice, Second Edition moves beyond the theoretical to show how positive psychology is being used in real-world settings, and the new directions emerging in the field. An international team of contributors representing the best and brightest in the discipline review the latest research, discuss how the findings are being used in practice, explore new ideas for appli...

The applications of positive psychology are different from traditional interventions in therapy in that they are focused on building strength, resilience and well-being rather than being restricted to simply treating disorder. Since the publication of the first edition of Positive Therapy, there is now a comprehensive body of applied positive psychology research to which practitioners may turn in order to inform their own practice, and that sees its purpose as the facilitation of ...

Life throws a lot of unexpected and unpleasant things at us. Many people just struggle on, but others find someone to talk to, someone like Stephen Joseph, who, as a therapist, is trained to listen to their concerns. They turn up with problems - failing relationships, stalled careers, conflicts, feelings of upset - that all seem very real to them in the moment. They may say they just want to 'get back to normal' or 'get back on track'. But sometimes the truth is that things have changed to...

A Simple Family Breviary is a modern version of the Little Office of Saint Francis of Assisi by a former parish priest trying to help families pray together. Each prayer session includes a traditional song, a psalm of the season, either a psalm of Saint Francis or a psalm from the commons of Mary and the Saints, and closing praises. The order of prayer is easy to follow and offers variety day to day and month to month, and includes a calendar of major feasts of the church year. This simple...

Forty Spiritual Exercises: lifegiving penances in the great gift of mercy, is a collection of popular penances arranged by a former parish priest for faith-sharing groups meeting over six weeks, or for an individual reader seeking more creative ways to pray. They include 10 psalms, 22 other scripture passages, a walk to search for beauty, un-telling a lie, remembering one's baptism, a freely done tithe, the immensity and absurdity of sin, 72 tools of the spiritual...

A former parish priest, seeks in this essay connections of the faith tradition, scripture, theology, some LGBTQI realities, and a history of some church teachings being both correct and still incomplete. He draws on Pope Francis (Who am I to judge?); that a minority of humans discover themselves to be LGBTQ; religious freedom; the right to act in conscience; and the Church's call to treat people who discover that their reality includes deep-seated same-sex attraction with respect, compassi...

Tree of Life: Incarnation, Passion & Glory, Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story. This is Saint Bonaventure's 13th Century collection of fifty meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Glory of Jesus Christ. Following the 1978 translation by Dr. Ewert Cousins, parish priest and spiritual director Stephen Joseph Wolf offers a paraphrase with brush-ink drawings.

A Jesus Breviary is full of meditation renderings of scripture passages on the love of God, the person of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Christian life. A "breviary" is a portable prayerbook, usually with psalms, canticles, songs, scripture readings, and prayers. This volume is a compilation of a series: 31 Days of God's Love-Call is from Hebrew scriptures to help sit with God saying "I love you" for as long as we can stand it. 31 Days of Jesus Incarnate is about that many who live...