Val Walker
Författare till The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do for People in Distress
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Val Walker is a rehabilitation consultant and the author of The Art of Comforting, which won the Nautilus Book Award and was recommended by the Boston Public Health Commission as a guide for families impacted by the Boston Marathon Bombing. She has a master of science degree in rehabilitation visa mer counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University and has led support groups for twenty-four years for people living with chronic illness, disability, grief, and trauma. A contributing blogger for Psychology Today, she lives in Boston and teaches and speaks throughout New England. Catch up with Val at ValWalkerAuthor.com. visa färre
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The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do for People… av Val Walker
This book is easy to read and covers everything. The thing that makes it great is that it gives advice for any kind of person, so you can develop your style of comforting based on your own strengths, and learn how to improve your weaker areas. I read it because I'm a counselor and a follower of captain awkward's blog (where I got the recommendation) but really everyone would benefit from reading this book, it will help everyone you interact with.
Normally I would deride a book like this for not offering any kind of evidence, but that's not quite the point. This book is a painstaking compilation of the wisdom of many different kind of professionals, which is probably as close as you're going to get to evidence-based comforting.
Walker's line in the introduction, "Why was the world so lacking in people who could just sit gently with us at painful times?" [p. xvi], might be the wisest commentary on human society I've ever read. If you can find those people who can sit gently with you at painful times, keep them in your life. If not, this book might be a handy, if somewhat self-serving, gift.… (mer)
Walker's line in the introduction, "Why was the world so lacking in people who could just sit gently with us at painful times?" [p. xvi], might be the wisest commentary on human society I've ever read. If you can find those people who can sit gently with you at painful times, keep them in your life. If not, this book might be a handy, if somewhat self-serving, gift.… (mer)
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