This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of client and client problems.

Full Description:   

Get the updated classic that provides innovative exercises that promotes change

The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy is the updated classic that provides mental health clinicians with hands-on tools to use in daily practice. This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of client and client problems. Useful case studies illustrate how the activities can be effectively applied. Each expert contributor employs a consistent chapter format, making finding the ’right’ activity easy.

The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy includes innovative field-tested activities to assist therapists in a wide range of applications, including adults, children, adolescents and families, couples, group work, trauma/abuse recovery, divorce and stepfamily issues, and spirituality. Format for each chapter follow by type of contribution (activity, handout, and/or homework for clients and guidance for clinicians in utilizing the activities or interventions), objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, and contraindications. Three different reference sections include references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client.

Various theoretical perspectives are presented in The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, including:

• cognitive behavioral
• narrative therapy
• solution focus
• choice theory and reality therapy
• REBT
• strategic family therapy
• experiential
• art and play therapies
• couples approaches including Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy
• medical family therapy
• Jungian
• family-of-origin therapy
• adventure-based therapy
  
  

34 chapters. xxiv + 290 pp. with Index. Includes B&W photos and illustrations. 8.25 x 10.75 format. Features homework sheets, handouts, step-by-step activities, and recommended readings.

Additional Volumes sold separately.

• The Couple and Family Therapist's Notebook
• The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents
• The Therapist's Notebook for Families
• The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling Vol I
• The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling Vol II
• The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbia, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
• The Group Therapist's Notebook
• The Therapist's Notebook for Family Health Care
• The Therapist's Notebook Vol 1

  Stock: Usually ships in 5-8 business days!