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Being worth-conscious means that we believe we are worthy as human beings, and we understand the equity of human worth in our interactions with others. Having an lost-worth story refers to the belief that self-worth can be lost; it is a personal story that often begins in childhood, where the denial of self-worth can develop as a pattern within a system that fails to recognize or honor an individual's inherent value.
Dawna Daigneault, EdS, LPC, CCTP, is a writer, speaker, and professional counselor with twenty years of experience. She specializes in serving clients with self-worth-based challenges that complicate client trauma.
Chris Brown, M.S., PhD, is professor emerita in the Psychology and Counseling Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a licensed psychologist with 40-plus years of experience providing psychotherapy to culturally diverse populations.
Understanding Self-Worth: A Guide to Worth-Conscious Theory and Psychotherapeutic Practice is for psychotherapists confounded by the struggle of working with clients who present with a pervasive pattern of denied self-worth, which causes a specific type of psychache (i.e., unbearable suffering). When self-worth is experienced as conditional or denied altogether, a "lost-worth" story may result—that story can keep them from acknowledging their worth. The denial may include generational abusive and/or intrusive injunctions that contradict their lived truth. Additional aspects of a lost-worth story include competing values within the client’s systems (e.g., family, community) that conflict with their inherent values. The psychotherapist will learn to attend to the degree of trauma experienced when the client’s self- worth is separated from their individual truth. Moreover, where there is worth-based psychological pain, the psychotherapist will learn models for helping the client to gently and honestly reestablish a worthy and true sense of self while consciously guiding them toward the recovery of their self-worth as a birthright.
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