The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents [Paperback]

Bob Bertolino (Author), Gary Schultheis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0789012448 | ISBN-13: 978-0789012449 | Edition: 1

Help your clients facilitate positive changes with these innovative therapeutic exercises!

The Therapist's Notebook for Families empowers mental health professionals with clear, practical, easy-to-use therapeutic exercises for working with parents, adolescents, children, and families. These exercises will improve your effectiveness with clients, helping them to explore possibilities, find solutions, and create change in spite of difficult problems.

The current climate in the mental health field calls for professionals to be both effective and accountable. This book will help you to work more effectively and more respectfully with clients with an array of exercises designed to facilitate change processes.

These activities will help you and your clients in:

• establishing goals and projected outcomes
• changing unhealthy views
• improving on their current style of action/interaction
• identifying and amplifying change
• managing setbacks
• ending therapy

This volume include suggestions for the best ways to use the exercises as well as descriptions of the purpose of each activity. The Therapist's Notebook for Families will prove invaluable in your work with families!

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789012448
• ISBN-13: 978-0789012449
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Therapists, Your Job Just Got Easier, March 27, 2003

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Patty E. Fleener "Webowner - Mental Health Today" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Paperback)

I am the webowner of Mental Health Today. I cannot recommend this book enough. It contains exercises - questions in assisting people with change and dealing with problems. Excellent aid for therapists for treating clients of all ages.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Thumbs Up, November 16, 2008

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K. Stauffer (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Paperback)

I am a new therapist, just out of the gate. Of all the books and workbooks I've purchased over the past few months, and this is the most utilized. The exercises on "action talk" and "goal setting" have guided my early work with several families, we refer back to the lessons learned frequently. A very practical, easy-to-use resource.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tool!, March 12, 2010

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Kate "love to read" (Wyoming, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Paperback)

This book porvides worksheets that cover several treatment modalities for family therapy. I am enjoying using them and modifying to suit my clients.