The therapist's notebook for children and adolescents : homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy
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The therapist's notebook for children and adolescents : homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy
(Haworth practical practice in mental health)
Haworth Clinical Practice Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 home
A 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!
Table of Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Therapist Attitudes About Play
Acknowledgments
Section I: Dealing with Children's Feelings
1. Feeling Faces Prevent Scary Places
2. Deflating Fear
3. A Child's Impossible and Scariest Tasks
4. Soaring Above Stress: Using Relaxation and Visualization with Anxious Children
5. Getting to Know the Characters Inside Me: Children Coping with Thoughts and Feelings
Section II: The Use of Play in Therapy
6. Play Genograms
7. Strengthening Parent-Child Attachment with Play: Filial Play Therapy
8. Using Play to Help Parents Share Difficult Information with Young Children
9. Explaining to Parents the Use of Play in Family Therapy
10. Family Sandplay: Strengthening the Parent-Child Bond
11. Spin Me a Yarn: Breaking the Ice, and Warming the Heart
12. Co-Art: A Joining Activity for Therapist and Younger Clients
13. Using LIFE to Explore Children's Worlds
Section III: Specific Childhood Problems
14. Learning and School Related Problems in Childhood
15. Superman versus the Monster: Assisting a Young Child with Nightmares
16. "Mommy Is a Restless Sleeper"
17. Secret Signals Soothe Separation Stress
18. A Brief Assessment of Social Competency Skills in Preschool and Early Elementary Children
Section IV: Dealing with Illness, Trauma, and Bereavement
19. Children's Understanding of Death
20. Tips for Parents When There is Illness in the Family
21. Scrapbooking During Traumatic and Transitional Events
22. Animal-Assisted Therapy for Sexually Abused Children
Section V: Youth/Adolescents
23. Using Adolescents As Consultants in Therapy
24. Creating a Participating Role for Adolescents in Group and Family Therapy
25. Silent Scream: Opening Adolescent Communication
26. The Places You'll Go: Developing Hope and Self-Efficacy
27. Therapeutic Letters to Young Persons
28. Parental Involvement in an Adolescent's Career Decision Process
29. Improving Behavior and Identities of Youths: Exploring and Creating Culturally Relevant Masks
30. Judge and Jury: A Creative Approach to Discussing Sex with Teens
Section VI: Specific Approaches or Interventions
31. The Use of Consultants in Play Therapy: Narrative Practices with Young Children
32. Integrating Externalization and Scaling Questions: Using Visual Scaling to Amplify Children's Voices
33. Becoming the Author of Your Life: Writing Stories of Change
34. Jumanji
35. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Getting to Know a Child's World Through Photographs
36. Champion Pack
Section VII: Family Issues
37. The Family Play Planning: Playing Together, Staying Together
38. Kidsculpt: Children's Role in Marital and Family Therapy
39. Special Time Activities
40. Anger Collage
41. Director's Chair
42. Using Children's Books in Family Therapy
Section VIII: Parent Education and Intervention
43. The Parent's Guide to Good Divorce Behavior
44. Ten Commandments for Stepfamilies
45. Helping Parents Understand and Use Natural and Logical Consequences
46. Helping Parents Use the Time-Out Procedure
Index
Reference Notes Included
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