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...

Dans cet ouvrage éclairant, le psychologue et psychothérapeute Stephen Joseph dévoile les six prises de conscience fondamentales qui permettent de changer de perspective pour avancer vers une vie plus épanouie. Fort de trois décennies d’expérience, il met en lumière les mécanismes qui nous enferment dans le mal-être et les déclics qui permettent d’en sortir. À travers des réflexions profondes et des outils concrets, il nous guide sur le chemin d’une transformationauthentique et dura...

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 ...

The hunger for authenticity guides us throughout our lives. People strive for joined-up living, where on the one hand what they say and do reflects what they think and feel, and on the other what they think and feel reflects who they are.Stephen Joseph has pioneered developments in research into authenticity, drawing on the solid science of positive psychology to develop what has become one of the gold-standard tests for assessing authenticity. His and others' findings reveal that ...

Surviving a traumatic experience is difficult and takes time to move on from, but this book makes the argument that with proper care and understanding, survivors can grow and reshape their lives in a positive way.For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma. His studies have yielded a startling discovery: that a wide range of traumatic events-from illness, divorce, separation, assault, and bereavement to acci...

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...