A Clinician's Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people [Paperback]

Paul Stallard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0470025085 | ISBN-13: 978-0470025086 | Edition: 1

This is a companion guide to Think Good Feel Good: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for Children and Young People. Designed for clinicians using the original workbook in their work with children, the book builds upon the workbook materials by offering guidance on all aspects of the therapeutic process and a range of case studies highlighting therapy in action. Topics covered include parent involvement, key cognitive distortions in children, formulations, challenging thoughts, guided discovery and the use of imagery. Also included is a chapter focusing on possible problems in therapy and strategies for overcoming them.



To supplement the workbook, the clinician's guide offers further materials and handouts for use in therapy, including psycho-educational materials for children and parents on common problems, such as depression, OCD, PTSD/Trauma and Anxiety

Editorial Reviews

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"...provides ideas to 'inform and facilitate' the clinical practice of child-focused cognitive behavioural therapy...the guide also has resources online..." (Children Now, 16th November 2005)

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Praise for Think Good–Feel Good

‘Highly Commended’ in the Mental Health category of the 2003 BMA Medical Book Competition

‘Think Good–Feel Good is a wonderful resource for practitioners undertaking cognitive behaviour therapy with children and young people … The materials promise to be an essential component of the toolbox of any child or adolescent CBT therapist, and deserve to become a key resource in training.’ Dr Rachel Calam, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

This is a companion guide to the highly successful workbook Think Good–Feel Good: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for Children and Young People. Designed for clinicians using the original workbook in their work with children, this guide builds upon the practical materials in the workbook by looking at the process of undertaking child-focused CBT, including:

• engaging children in CBT and motivating them
• developing an individual case formulation
• undertaking Socratic questioning and inductive reasoning
• how best to involve parents
• effective methods to use with children

To supplement the workbook, this clinician’s guide offers further materials and handouts for use in therapy, including psychoeducational materials for children and parents.

This is a must-have resource for child and adolescent mental health professionals wanting to use CBT with children. It will also be of interest to other health professionals working with children, such as social workers, school nurses, counsellors and health visitors.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470025085
• ISBN-13: 978-0470025086
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I use it in my practice--love it., January 18, 2009

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This review is from: A Clinician's Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people (Paperback)

I have used this program with 8 children together with their parents and I have had really good results with it. The nine chapters (that are lessons) go through stages, first teaching kids how to recognize their thoughts and how they connect with and create feelings. Later chapter help kids to challenge those irrational beliefs and then ways to ignore them and replace them. For some kids the pace (one chapter a week) is just right, for other too slow, so you can double up the chapters or skip parts. Great homework pages too, which not only reinforce the reading but help you to make sure that they are 'getting it'. I make copies of the pages and pass them out as we go through it.

This method of doing it with a parent is important because they can do it together and the parent learns the ideas and then knows how to intervene when the child's thinking (or their own) gets off track.

Cons: I always explain that it was written by an Englishman and that there is some language (What's a dust bin?) and grammar that is different.

Also I try to partner with the parent that the child takes after, but if they are too depressed and impatient, it wont work. I will go with the other parent or do it with the child my self, but have separate meetings with parents.

Highly recommended.

Howard Wolfe, LMFT
Arlington, MA

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Children, December 20, 2008

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This review is from: A Clinician's Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people (Paperback)

This book provides excellent re-usable materials and online access rights. All clinicians should own a copy!