@article{article_229822, title={The Counselor’s Resilient Self}, journal={Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Journal}, volume={4}, pages={137–146}, year={2012}, DOI={10.17066/pdrd.77657}, author={Skovholt, Thomas}, keywords={psikolojik danışmanın psikolojik sağlamlılığı, kendine bakma, tükenmeyi önleme}, abstract={Counseling is an intense interpersonal process between each of us as the counselor and the other, the client, who we try to help-guide-counsel. For success, we must bring so much of our self to the meeting with our client: our emotional self, our intellectual self, our energetic self, our hopeful self, our ethical self, our knowledgeable and competent self, our sensitive self, our emotionally courageous self, our trusting self, our confident self and more and more. We must actively meet our client’s high distress level (anxiety-anger-depression), lack of knowledge, low motivation, and ambivalence about us as a helper and lack of trust of others. Making positive attachments, establishing valuable working alliances, healing any ruptures between us and the client—these are professional skills that are central to our profession. Being able to develop and maintaining these professional relationships for the client’s well-being is the heart of why our profession is so valuable as an accelerated method for human development. To do this work with client after client, time after time, the counselor must actively engage in activities that produce positive energy for this work---work that can drain so much for us even as it also gives us great meaning. Avoiding burnout and developing professional resiliency are crucial for long-term counselor competence. Here, in this article, a resiliency inventory and ten essential resiliency tasks for counselors are described.}, number={38}, publisher={Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association}