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Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2
More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
by Edited by Lorna L. Hecker, PhD, Catherine Ford Sori, PhD

This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of client and client problems.

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Get the updated classic that provides innovative exercises that promotes change

The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy is the updated classic that provides mental health clinicians with hands-on tools to use in daily practice. This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of client and client problems. Useful case studies illustrate how the activities can be effectively applied. Each expert contributor employs a consistent chapter format, making finding the ’right’ activity easy.

The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy includes innovative field-tested activities to assist therapists in a wide range of applications, including adults, children, adolescents and families, couples, group work, trauma/abuse recovery, divorce and stepfamily issues, and spirituality. Format for each chapter follow by type of contribution (activity, handout, and/or homework for clients and guidance for clinicians in utilizing the activities or interventions), objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, and contraindications. Three different reference sections include references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client.

Various theoretical perspectives are presented in The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, including:

  • cognitive behavioral
  • narrative therapy
  • solution focus
  • choice theory and reality therapy
  • REBT
  • strategic family therapy
  • experiential
  • art and play therapies
  • couples approaches including Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • medical family therapy
  • Jungian
  • family-of-origin therapy
  • adventure-based therapy

The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy is a horizon-expanding guide for marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, pastoral counselors, occupational therapists, counselor educators, school social workers, school counselors, and students.

34 chapters. xxiv + 290 pp. with Index. Includes B&W photos and illustrations. 8.25 x 10.75 format. Features homework sheets, handouts, step-by-step activities, and recommended readings.

Additional Volumes sold separately.


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