Great resource for children's mental health practitioners

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	• The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in ... Catherine Ford Sori, Lorna L. Hecker Routledge, 2003 - 396 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lots of ideas

Lots of uses for those working with children. Activities and great things for parents to do at home as well.
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Great basic for your bookshelf

This book has good techniques and ideas to use with children and teens to conquor many common concerns, such as divorce, changes in families, nightmares, etc. The book provides research why particular methods are used which is helpful in getting parents to participate.

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Good workbook/reading for beginning clinicians

As a therapist, I was somewhat disappointed with this workbook and have not used it very much in my practice. Some of the activities are unique and helpful, but most of them require too much preparation or are too advanced for the families I work with. Most of the instructions are very long, and some are confusing. I see clients every hour, so I want something I can pull off the shelf, become familiar with, and prepare in a short amount of time. Most of the handouts that are to be given to clients are printed in small print and hard to read and some use language that is not understandable to clients who have low reading levels. I think this book would be more helpful to new clinicians because it discusses the rationale behind each activity, and includes vignettes that show how the activities helped certain clients, suggestions for follow-up, contraindictions for use, and suggested readings.

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Great resource for children's mental health practitioners

This is a wonderful resource for children's mental health practitioners. It includes art and play techniques on a wide variety of treatment issues. Highly recommended.

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Great Resource

Practical ideas to utilize in therapy make working with children and adolescents so much easier for therapists who are uncertain how to work effectively with young people. This book helps therapists understand children's needs within a variety of family circumstances and to work effectively with parents to facilitate their parenting skills. Chock full of useful ideas; a wonderful resource! Nancy Nickell

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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!

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