The Mental Health Handbook

Trevor J. Powell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863883303 ISBN 13: 9780863883309

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

The bestselling "Mental Health Handbook" contains a treasury of photocopiable handouts covering many areas of mental health rehabilitation. New for 2008, these handouts are now available to print straight from the accompanying CD-Rom. It contains a huge collection of valuable material sensibly organised for quick access in one convenient package. It is designed to be photocopied or printed off and handed to clients to supplement treatment programmes through home practice.The main theoretical underpinning of the book is cognitive behavioural therapy, which offers an educational, instructive and directive approach to solving specific problems. It contains more than 150 resource sheets, including graded practice sheets, checklists, behavioural symptoms questionnaires, rating scales, home assignments, analysis sheets, goal plans and self-monitoring exercises. It also contains sections on anger management and relationship difficulties, procrastination, managing worry, self-care, chronic fatigue, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Review:

CBT therapist, helper or counsellor, this handbook will be a godsend. Buy it, hug it, ... use it. --Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Never has so much relevant and useful material been gathered together in one handbook before --Therapy Weekly

From the Publisher:

* It is a huge collection of valuable material sensibly organised for quick access in one convenient package. All of these pages are designed to be freely photocopied and handed to clients to supplement treatment programmes through home practice. * This revised edition contains extended sections on anger management and relationship difficulties and has new sections covering: Procrastination; Managing worry; Self-care; Chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome. * Now with more than 150 sheets, including graded practice sheets, checklists, behavioural symptoms questionnaires, rating scales, home assignments, analysis sheets, goal plans and self-monitoring exercises.