Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner (PracticePlanners) - Softcover

Jongsma Jr., Arthur E.; Peterson, L. Mark; McInnis, William P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471344656 ISBN 13: 9780471344650

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Synopsis

Focusing on adolescents from age 12–18, this easy–to–use sourcebook provides pre–written psychotherapy homework assignments. The 52 field–tested exercises are grouped by skill set. The book includes ready–to–copy blank exercises, instructions on when and how to use the assignments, and a floppy disk that contains word–processing versions of every assignment in the book.

About this title

About the Author

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is a clinical psychologist and coauthor of the bestselling books The Complete Psychotherapy Treatment Planner and The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, as well as TheraScribe(r) 3.0 for Windows(r). The Computerized Assistant to Psychotherapy Treatment Planning.

L. MARK PETERSON, MSW, is the coauthor of the bestselling The Complete Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

WILLIAM P. McINNIS, EdD, is coauthor of The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner and a child psychologist.

From the Back Cover

Help your adolescent clients develop the skills they need to work through problems.

As a mental health professional involved in treating adolescents, you work to help your clients learn to understand and clearly communicate their feelings, identify how and when problems arise, and develop effective coping strategies. Pencil–and–paper exercises provide one highly effective tool for achieving those goals.

The Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner arms you with dozens of ready–to–use assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. Focusing on adolescents from ages 12 to 18, this easy–to–use sourcebook features:

• Over 50 copier–ready exercises covering the most common issues in adolescent therapeutic treatment.
• Quick–reference format the interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problem, such as anxiety, eating disorder, and suicidal ideation.
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises.
• Assignments are cross–referenced to The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner so you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem.
• A computer disk that contains all the exercises in a word–processing format allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients′ unique styles and needs. The Brief Adolescent Therapy Homework Planner is an indispensable, time–saving tool of the trade for all mental health professionals who work with adolescents.

  Contains 54 ready–to–copy homework assignments that can be used to facilitate brief adolescent therapy.

• Homework assignments and exercises are keyed to the behaviorally based presenting problems from The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.
• Assignments may be quickly customized using the enclosed disk Over 100,000 Practice Planners^TM sold.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471344656
• ISBN 13: 9780471344650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304