The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
This book puts a myriad of homework, handouts, activities, and interventions in your hands!\ Targeted specifically toward children and adolescents, the “therapist's helpers,” you'll find in this extraordinary book will give you the edge in aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy, providing group therapy to children, and encouraging appropriate parental involvement. The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents covers sleep problems, divorce,...
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This book puts a myriad of homework, handouts, activities, and interventions in your hands! Targeted specifically toward children and adolescents, the “therapist's helpers,” you'll find in this extraordinary book will give you the edge in aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy, providing group therapy to children, and encouraging appropriate parental involvement. The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents covers sleep problems, divorce, illness, grief, sexual abuse, cultural/minority issues, and more, incorporating therapeutic approaches that include play, family play, psychodynamic, family systems, behavioral, narrative, and solution-focused therapy.This ready reference is divided into eight thoughtfully planned 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, Special Child Problems, Youth/Adolescents, Specific Approaches or Interventions, Family Issues, Parent Education and Intervention, and Illness and Bereavement.Covering a wide age range, The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents will help you become even more effective with your youthful clients by: providing creative ideas for use with children expanding your repertoire of proven interventions and approaches to working with children and specific children's issues exploring effective ways to run children's groups showing you 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-helping the client’s behavioral change to be reinforced at homeA far cry from typical child intervention books, The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy does much more than simply help you teach skills to children. Make it a part of your therapeutic arsenal today!
About the EditorsContributorsForewordPrefaceTherapist Attitudes About PlayAcknowledgments1Feeling Faces Prevent Scary Places32Deflating Fear93A Child's Impossible and Scariest Tasks184Soaring Above Stress: Using Relaxation and Visualization with Anxious Children255Getting to Know the Characters Inside Me: Children Coping with Thoughts and Feelings406Play Genograms497Strengthening Parent-Child Attachment with Play: Filial Play Therapy578Using Play to Help Parents Share Difficult Information with Young Children649Explaining to Parents the Use of Play in Family Therapy7110Family Sandplay: Strengthening the Parent-Child Bond7911Spin Me a Yarn: Breaking the Ice and Warming the Heart8312Co-Art: A Joining Activity for Therapists and Younger Clients9213Using LIFE to Explore Children's Worlds9614Learning and School-Related Problems in Childhood10315Superman versus the Monster: Assisting a Young Child with Nightmares11216"Mommy Is a Restless Sleeper"11617Secret Signals Soothe Separation Stress12518A Brief Assessment of Social Competency Skills in Preschool and Early Elementary School Children13219Children's Understanding of Death14320Tips for Parents When There Is Illness in the Family15021Scrapbooking During Traumatic and Transitional Events15722Animal-Assisted Therapy for Sexually Abused Children16323Using Adolescents As Consultants in Therapy17124Creating a Participating Role for Adolescents in Group and Family Therapy18025Silent Scream: Opening Adolescent Communication18526The Places You'll Go: Developing Hope and Self-Efficacy19227Therapeutic Letters to Young Persons19928Parental Involvement in an Adolescent's Career Decision Process20429Improving Behavior and Identities of Youths: Exploring and Creating Culturally Relevant Masks21130Judge and Jury: A Creative Approach to Discussing Sex with Teens21831The Use of Consultants in Play Therapy: Narrative Practices with Young Children22532Integrating Externalization and Scaling Questions: Using Visual Scaling to Amplify Children's Voices23033Becoming the Author of Your Life: Writing Stories of Change23734Jumanji24235A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Getting to Know a Child's World Through Photographs24736Champion Pack25237The Family Play Planner: Playing Together, Staying Together26138Kidsculpt: Children's Role in Marital and Family Therapy27039Special Time Activities27940Anger Collage29141Director's Chair29642Using Children's Books in Family Therapy30243The Parent's Guide to Good Divorce Behavior32344Ten Commandments for Stepfamilies33045Helping Parents Understand and Use Natural and Logical Consequences33646Helping Parents Use the Time-Out Procedure342Index349
