The Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use i

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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... Read more

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. Read less

I: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Individ Uals; 1: The Voodoo Doll Intervention; 2: Living a New Story; 3: When “Bad” Is Good; 4: Addressing the Critical and Supportive Voices Through Art Therapy; 5: The Toxic Monster; 6: Smush 'Em; 7: The Many Roles People Play; 8: Feeling from the Inside Out; 9: Objects in the Rearview Mirror; 10: Through the Eyes of a Child; 11: Assisting Clients in Establishing Personal Boundaries; 12: Sports Talk; 13: Setting Goals and Developing Action Plans; 14: Sculpting for Visual and Kinesthetic Learners; 15: Conscientious Activities for Compulsive Clients; 16: Breaking the Cycle Between Being Passive and Aggressive; 17: The Power of Homework in Survivors' Groups; 18: A “Magic” Aid for Hypnosis and Suggestion in Crisis Management; II: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Couples; 19: Assertiveness Homework for Couples; 20: Productive Dialoguing with Couples; 21: Constructive Communication; 22: The Tug-of-War; 23: The 80/20 Principle in Marital Therapy; 24: A Couple's Ordeal of Sorrow; 25: The Use of Controlled Punishment and Ritual in Couples Therapy; 26: The Empathy Expansion Procedure; 27: Primary Perceptual Modalities in Couples Therapy; 28: Imagery Exercises for Couples; 29: Feelings Flash Cards; 30: Gratitude Lists; 31: Rewriting Marriage Vows; 32: Recalling the Way We Were; 33: Feeding the Relationship by Feeding Each Other; 34: Keeping the Honeymoon in the Marriage; 35: First Date Recollections and Fantasies with Couples; 36: Structured Trial Separation; 37: Mate Selection Criteria for Compatibility; 38: Couple Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire; 39: Sexual Response and Interaction Inventory; 40: Using Gender as a Therapeutic Technique; 41: The Intimate Justice Question; 42: The Diversity Dilemma; 43: Negotiating Drug-Free Activities; 44: The “Mrs. K'negdo/Mrs. Opposite” Assignment; III: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Families; 45: Strategies for Building Stronger Families; 46: Family Assessment Tool; 47: The Therapeutic Journey; 48: Good Cops and Bad Cops in Parenting; 49: The “Talk About” Game; 50: A Box of Tenderness; 51: Out of the Middle with a Toss of the Coin; 52: The “Oprah” Approach; 53: Teamwork; 54: Involving Children in Family Therapy; 55: Videotaped Coaching; 56: The Family Constitution Activity; 57: The Systemic Wave; 58: Letter from the Grave; 59: Dealing with a Fire Setter; 60: Involving Larger Systems; IV: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Children; 61: “The Many Sides of Me”; 62: My Uniqueness; 63: My Family in the News; 64: The “Key” to Anger Control; 65: It's Okay to Cry; 66: Greeting Card Messages; 67: Helpful Homemade Props for Children in Therapy; 68: The Puzzling Problem-Solving Activity; 69: Prescribing Fluctuations in Developmental Time; 70: HELP! My Child Won't Do Homework!; 71: Divorce and Children; 72: Red Light/Green Light; 73: Awards; V: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Adolescents; 74: Teenage Clients' Favorite Music as an Aid in Therapy; 75: “I Am the Expert!”; 76: I Wish I Had the Cosby Family; 77: Beliefs and Tactics That Encourage Behavior Problems; 78: Rewriting Youth Stories; 79: Soap Talk; VI: Therapist Helpers; 80: Assessing Client Risk of Violence; 81: Assessing Client Risk of Suicide; 82: Client Assessment and Treatment Planning; 83: Use of Disclosure Statements in Practice

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Lorna L Hecker, Sharon A. Deacon

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

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