ABSTRACT

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 clients 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.

chapter I|44 pages

Couples

chapter 4|8 pages

Counseling Couples with Choice Theory and Reality Therapy

The Structured First Interview

chapter 5|8 pages

Blossoming Relationships

Using Creativity in Couple Counseling

chapter 6|9 pages

Hugging, Holding, Huddling, and Cuddling (3HC)

A Task Prescription in Couple and Family Therapy

chapter 8|6 pages

Connecting Spaces

Experiential Encounters for Families

chapter 9|5 pages

The Feeling Head

chapter 11|6 pages

The Creative Career Constellation

chapter 12|10 pages

Props

Therapeutic Use of Common Objects

chapter III|34 pages

Adults

chapter 13|4 pages

Client Family-of-Origin Interviews with Parents

Questions That Support Discovery and Connection

chapter 14|6 pages

Externalizing Problems

It's in the Bag

chapter 17|6 pages

Active Imagination

chapter 18|6 pages

Discovering Hidden Immigrants

chapter IV|20 pages

Groups

chapter 20|4 pages

Say It with Flowers

An Innnovative Group Therapy Activity for Adults and Children

chapter 21|6 pages

Taking Out the Trash

chapter 27|21 pages

Spirituality

chapter 29|8 pages

How to Defeat a Giant

Using Spiritual Stories to Empower Children

chapter 30|11 pages

Spiritual Play Genogram

chapter VIII|32 pages

Therapist Tools

chapter 32|11 pages

Therapy Intake Form

chapter 34|4 pages

The Tiger Woods Analogy

The Seven-Minute Active Listening Solution