Understanding Self-Worth: A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice

By Dawna Daigneault and Chris Brown

Understanding Self-Worth: A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice is a guide for psychotherapists confounded by the struggle of working with clients who present with a pervasive pattern of denied self-worth.

When self-worth is perceived as conditional or denied altogether, clients may become complicit in creating a lost-worth story--the story they tell that keeps them denying their own worth. The denial may include generational abusive and/or intrusive injunctions that go against their lived truth.

Psychotherapists will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the importance of attending to the degree of trauma experienced when the client's self-worth is separated from their individual truth. Moreover, where there is worth-based trauma, the psychotherapist will learn models both for helping clients gently and honestly reestablish a worthy and true sense of self and for consciously guiding clients toward recovery of human worth as a birthright.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032986344
• ISBN13: 9781032986340
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"