Incorporating the most up-to-date concepts and clinical tools, the newly revised and expanded second edition of this popular manual is even more user-friendly than its predecessor. Presented are an empirically tested format and ready-made curricula for skills training groups in a range of settings. Part I takes therapists and counsellors step by step through assessing clients' existing skills, teaching new skills, and managing common treatment challenges. Part II comprises over sixty ready-to-photocopy skill sheets (fifteen more than the previous edition), each one a complete lesson plan in itself. Other features of the second edition include an important new chapter on working with dually diagnosed clients; an overview of the empirical support for the approach; and additional assessment forms. Of special value for practitioners, the new 8.5x11" format makes it easier than ever to reproduce and use the practical materials in the book.
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'The definitive text on the topic. This second edition will be extraordinarily valuable both for experienced clinicians with a background in social skills training and for those who are interested in expanding their skills by adapting this evidence-based practice. The strength of this volume is that it provides a scholarly discussion of social deficits in schizophrenia together with a highly practical, step-by-step approach for conducting social skills training.' - Stephen R. Marder, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Alan S. Bellack, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Psychology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Kim T. Mueser, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Susan Gingerich, MSW, is a full-time trainer and consultant based in Narberth, Pennsylvania, USA
Julie Agresta, MSS, MEd, is a licensed social worker in private practice in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA
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This review is from: Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia, Second Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide (TREATMENT MANUALS FOR PRACTITIONERS) (Paperback)
This book on social skills training is useful not only for schizophrenics but also for other clients whose treatment includes the need to use role play to teach various skills. I purchased it for use in a new Dual Dx program at our agency but immediately saw its use for training staff to do more role play in our CBT-based substance abuse tx program for all clients.
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This step by step guide is very clear and user friendly. It is comprehensive and by outlining the activities step by step, it's a recipe for success.
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This is the book the reader is seeking if they are developing, maintaining or teaching a day treatment program for chronically, severely mentally ill persons. While the title specifically mentions schizophrenia the target population for social skills training will also include 'consumers' who have other severe mental illness or social deprivation which has caused their regression. Thus it is appropriate for persons who are training 'consumers' who suffer from chronic depression, organic brain syndromes, anxiety disorders, moderate to severe dementia and other illnesses.
This book appears to be written with the realization that teachers in adult day programs for the mentally ill will not necessarily possess advanced degrees and their supervisors may have degrees in another area of expertise. It remains very readable, has very little psychobabble nor fluff. The format is one which provides quickly learned and well structured lessons for the consumers. More importantly for today's treatment climate, it is laid out to guide the reader toward batter ability to document lesson plans and individual progress notes in a way which is easy for supervisory site visitors to follow. This is a vital point for programs which are licensed by state departments of mental health. For readers who have 'consumers' with significant impediment to learning social skills because of anxieties or personality disorders I'd recommend the reader evaluate a text which can familiarize them with DBT. Some of these are: *Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice: Applications across Disorders and Settings, *Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety, *Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, & Distress Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook).
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If asked to define schizophrenia or explain it, you would probably refer to hallucinations and delusions, the prototypical symptoms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressing unpleasant feelings, social skills training for schizophrenia, urinalysis contingency, clear feeling statement, opinion without arguing, less social impairment, skill outside the group, teaching this skill, clients with schizophrenia, discrimination modeling, other severe mental illnesses, firm voice tone, supplementary modeling, interpersonal partner, social perception skills, paralinguistic skills, expressing angry feelings, extreme impairment, last role play, next role play, social skills training groups, second role play, missing belongings, expressing positive feelings, start the role play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Susan Gingerich, Leaving Stressful Situations, Unfamiliar Person, Four Basic Social Skills, Making Complaints, Social Skills Homework Record, Social Functioning Interview, Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation, Social Skills Checklist, Checking Out Your Beliefs, Health-Related Concerns, Locating Your Missing Belongings, Making Apologies, Refusing Unwanted Sexual Advances, Social Skills Training Group Progress Note, Topic Set, Copyright Guilford Publications, Maryland Assessment of Social Competence New!
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If asked to define schizophrenia or explain it, you would probably refer to hallucinations and delusions, the prototypical symptoms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressing unpleasant feelings, social skills training for schizophrenia, urinalysis contingency, clear feeling statement, opinion without arguing, less social impairment, skill outside the group, teaching this skill, clients with schizophrenia, discrimination modeling, other severe mental illnesses, firm voice tone, supplementary modeling, interpersonal partner, social perception skills, paralinguistic skills, expressing angry feelings, extreme impairment, last role play, next role play, social skills training groups, second role play, missing belongings, expressing positive feelings, start the role play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Susan Gingerich, Leaving Stressful Situations, Unfamiliar Person, Four Basic Social Skills, Making Complaints, Social Skills Homework Record, Social Functioning Interview, Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation, Social Skills Checklist, Checking Out Your Beliefs, Health-Related Concerns, Locating Your Missing Belongings, Making Apologies, Refusing Unwanted Sexual Advances, Social Skills Training Group Progress Note, Topic Set, Copyright Guilford Publications, Maryland Assessment of Social Competence New!
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- Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families by Ph.D. Kim Mueser in Front Matter, and page 172
- Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders 2 Ed by Kim T. Mueser in Front Matter, and page 173
- The Reading List by Linda Kay in Back Matter
- Crisp Group Training Video: Stress Management, Third Edition, Group Training Video Program by Crisp Publications on page 177
- Substance Abuse: Pharmacologic, Developmental and Clinical Perspectives (A Wiley medical publication) by Gerald Bennett on page 148
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- Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders 2 Ed by Kim T. Mueser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Treating Chronic and Severe Mental Disorders: A Handbook of Empirically Supported Interventions by Stefan G. Hofmann Phd on page 40
- The Essential Guide to Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Education: Resources for Today's Educators and Practitioners by Donna M. Costa on page 36
- Clinical Updates for Family Therapists: Research and Treatment Approaches for Issues Affecting Today's Families, Vol. 2 by American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy on page 108
- The Task Planner by William J. Reid in Back Matter
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