The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

With The Therapist's Notebook, a compilation of original ideas by practicing clinicians, you can tap into the knowledge and experience of seasoned professionals to give your clients tangible, field-tested assignments that will represent their work and progress in therapy. Appropriate for practicing marriage and family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and other therapists of any professional affiliation who deal with children, adolescents, adults, couples, or families, this dynamic handbook provides you with reproducible handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com.

When did you last have enough free time to carefully create, develop, and test a therapeutic concept or teaching method to improve the help you provide to your patients?

With The Therapist's Notebook, a compilation of original ideas by practicing clinicians, you can tap into the knowledge and experience of seasoned professionals to give your clients tangible, field-tested assignments that will represent their work and progress in therapy. Appropriate for practicing marriage and family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and other therapists of any professional affiliation who deal with children, adolescents, adults, couples, or families, this dynamic handbook provides you with handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

The Therapist's Notebook is a valuable resource for both experienced and novice clinicians. Established clinicians will know how to fit each chapter to a particular clientele, while uninitiated clinicians or trainees will appreciate how the ready-made materials help their clients and spur their own creativity in intervening. You'll find therapeutic work becomes less stressful and more enjoyable as you learn about helping these populations deal with important issues:

• Adults—goal setting, boundary issues, life transitions, communication, problemsolving, compulsivity, feelings
• Couples—trust, infidelity, leisure time, communication, conflict resolution, sexuality, enrichment
• Families—rules/punishment, decisionmaking, gender roles, chores and responsibilities, communication
• Children—self-esteem, school problems, social skills, abuse, discipline problems
• Adolescents—peer pressure, school issues, communication, involvement in therapy, behavior
• Other—resistant clients, crisis counseling, linking clients with social resources

The Therapist's Notebook gives you a tangible, useful product you can utilize with clients. The book's compilation of homework, handouts, and activities that have been successfully applied to client populations is valuable not only for therapists’daily use, but also to illustrate creative, clinically tested interventions to future counselors, therapists, social workers, teachers, school psychologists, and special educators. Particularly useful as an ancillary text in university courses in psychotherapy-related fields, the book's user-friendly format will enliven practicum courses and ensure heightened student participation.

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A collection of 83 activities for practicing clinicians to use in interventions with clients. Each entry briefly discusses objectives, rationale for use, instructions, suggestions for follow up, and contraindications. The activities cover tools for a number of different psychotherapy issues for individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Targeted specifically toward children and adolescents, this book provides resources for therapists that will assist them in aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy, providing group therapy to children, and encouraging appropriate parental involvement. Topics covered include sleep problems, divorce, illness, grief, sexual abuse, cultural/minority issues, and incorporate therapeutic approaches that include play, family play, psychodynamic, family systems, behavioral, narrative, and solution-focused therapy. This book is divided into eight sections to make it easy to find the right activity, handout, or intervention for the problem at hand: Dealing with Children's Feelings, The Use of Play in Therapy, Specific Childhood Problems, Dealing with Illness, Trauma, and Bereavement, Youths/Adolescents, Specific Approaches or Interventions, Family Issues, and Parent Education and Intervention. Covering a wide age range, it is hoped that the book will help therapists become even more effective with youthful clients by: providing creative ideas for use with children; expanding therapists repertoire of proven interventions and approaches to working with children and specific children's issues; exploring effective ways to run children's groups; showing therapists how to work with children in many modalities--individual, family, with parents, and in groups; examining ways to include parents and families in child/adolescent therapy to increase the ability to make systematic changes, and helping the clients behavioral change to be reinforced at home. (GCP) Provides mental health clinicians with hands-on tools to use in daily practice. This resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of clients and client problems. It offers case studies that illustrate how the activities can be effectively applied.