Brief Therapy Homework Planner (Paperback)

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Product Description

Help your clients develop their problem-solving, communication, and coping skills.

As a mental health professional, you work to help your clients learn to recognize and clearly communicate their feelings, to identify how and when problems arise, and to develop effective coping strategies. In today's managed care environment, in which rapid results are everything, many psychotherapists are finding that pencil-and-paper homework exercises can provide a highly effective therapeutic adjunct for helping clients achieve those goals.

The Brief Therapy Homework Planner arms you with dozens of ready-to-use between-session assignments designed to fit with virtually every therapeutic mode. You get 62-behaviorally-based, copier-ready exercises, grouped by skill set and covering all major presenting symptoms. The author, an experienced clinician, provides expert guidance on how to make the most efficient use of the exercises, along with cross-references to the best-selling Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, 2nd Edition that help you to identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem.

And, since no two therapists—or clients—are alike, the Brief Therapy Homework Planner comes with a computer diskette containing all the assignments in the book in word-processing format. You have complete freedom to adapt, customize, and fine-tune the assignments to suit your unique style and your clients' needs.

The Brief Therapy Homework Planner is an indispensable tool-of-the-trade for all mental health professionals working in independent and small group practices.

From the Publisher

In an era of brief therapy, the time between sessions is an important component of the treatment process. This easy-to-use sourcebook provides pre-written psychotherapy homework assignments. The exercises are grouped by skill set (improving communication techniques, changing your perspective, developing new coping skills, etc.). The book includes ready-to-copy blank exercises, instructions on when and how to use the assignments, and a floppy disk which contains word-processing versions of every assignment in the book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Dsk edition (April 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471246115
• ISBN-13: 978-0471246114
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #810,499 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for the busy clinician., November 5, 1998

By	[e-mail] "rcrust" (Evansville, IN) - See all my reviews

The Brief Therapy Homework Planner offers the busy clinician an excellent resource for creative and effective homework assignments to give to clients. The assignments are particularly valuable in this age of managed care and accountability in the field of mental health care. The author has done a great job of making the book user-friendly. Assignments can be copied from the book or printed from the enclosed disk. Recommended highly.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars somewhat useful, June 21, 2002

By	"patz21" (Florence, AL USA) - See all my reviews

I have found some good handouts in this book, but not enough for it's price.

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Human Machine Writes 'Names 'for its hurts!, August 30, 2002

By	L. Dann "adhdmom" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When people have written that they think this is a good option for busy therapists in the age of managed care- I cringe. This reduces the complexities of the human experience into study hall.

The only possible usage for this sort of material would be in-patient perhaps, as assignments for interim periods, but as a one on one tool- it stands in the way of transferrence and humanistic care.