This groundbreaking book is the most comprehensive volume to-date that explores in depth the concept of reverence and strengths-based approaches in the psychotherapy healing process as manifested in a wide variety of treatment modalities such as child and play therapy, family therapy, therapeutic assessments and in training programs.

Reverence is defined as a sense of awe or profound respect for the person. It has become increasing rare in modern culture, not only in health care, but in education and in corporations, where people are too often treated in a dehumanizing way. This groundbreaking book is the most comprehensive volume to-date that explores in depth the concept of reverence and strengths-based approaches in the psychotherapy healing process as manifested in a wide variety of treatment modalities such as child and play therapy, family therapy, therapeutic assessments, and in training programs. Applications in head start programs and group homes, with both juvenile offenders and traumatized children, are covered in individual chapters along with using a strengths-based, reverent approach with providers.

1 Table of Contents
2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 I. Introduction and Overview of Reverence in Healing
Chapter 4 1. The Concept of Reverence in the Healing Process
Chapter 5 2. The Power of Mindsets: A Personal Journey to Nurture Dignity, Hope, and Resilience in Children
Chapter 6 3. Reverence for Spirituality in the Healing Process
Chapter 7 4. Reverencing the Many Faces of Each
Part 8 II. Reverence for Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 9 5. Resiliency-Based Approaches and the Healing Process in Play Therapy
Chapter 10 6. A Strengths-Based Approach to Dynamically Oriented Child Psychotherapy
Chapter 11 7.Overcoming All Odds: Helping Young Men Find Their Strengths
Chapter 12 8. Revering the Suffering and Strengths of Adolescent Girls
Chapter 13 9. Strengths-Based Approach to Trauma Treatment with Children
Chapter 14 10. A Competence Approach to Therapy with Families with Multiple Problems
Chapter 15 11. Strengths-Based Approaches with Adolescents and Families of Color
Chapter 16 12. Resilience among Children and Families in the Midst of Trauma and Change
Part 17 III. Strengths-Based Applications in Assessment, Training, and Treatment Collaboration
Chapter 18 13. Strengths-Based Therapeutic Assessments of Families
Chapter 19 14. Developing a Focus on Mental Health in the Head Start Classroom
Chapter 20 15. What's "Good for the Goose": The Strengths-Based Approach with Providers
Chapter 21 16. Strengths-Based Healing with Youth in Juvenile Detention
Chapter 22 17. A Home of Healing and Reverence
Chapter 23 18. The Use of Positive Ethics in the Supervision of Doctoral Psychology Interns
Chapter 24 Epilogue: Reverence for Healers
25 Index
26 About the Contributors