ABSTRACT

Help your clients facilitate positive changes with these innovative therapeutic exercises!The Therapist's Notebook for Families empowers mental health professionals with clear, practical, easy-to-use therapeutic exercises for working with parents, adolescents, children, and families. These exercises will improve your effectiveness with clients, helping them to explore possibilities, find solutions, and create change in spite of difficult problems. The current climate in the mental health field calls for professionals to be both effective and accountable. This book will help you to work more effectively and more respectfully with clients with an array of exercises designed to facilitate change processes. These activities will help you and your clients in:

  • establishing goals and projected outcomes
  • changing unhealthy views
  • improving on their current style of action/interaction
  • identifying and amplifying change
  • managing setbacks
  • ending therapy
This volume include suggestions for the best ways to use the exercises as well as descriptions of the purpose of each activity. The Therapist's Notebook for Families will prove invaluable in your work with families!

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I: GETTING CLEAR ON THE CHANGE YOU WANT

part |2 pages

PART II: CHANGING THE VIEWING OF THE PROBLEM

chapter 14|3 pages

Acknowledging Efforts

chapter 15|4 pages

Lenses

chapter 17|3 pages

Parents’ Mission

chapter 18|3 pages

Adolescents’ Mission

chapter 20|3 pages

Controlling and Letting Go

chapter 21|2 pages

One More One More

chapter 22|2 pages

Teach Your Children

chapter 24|3 pages

Catch Your Child/Adolescent Doing Well

chapter 25|3 pages

Everyday Is an Exception

chapter 26|3 pages

Searching for “Counter” Evidence

chapter 27|3 pages

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

chapter 29|3 pages

At the Movies

chapter 30|3 pages

How Come Things Aren’t Worse?

chapter 31|4 pages

Standing Up to Problems

chapter 32|2 pages

Changing Criticism to Requests or Demands

chapter 33|4 pages

The Big Picture

chapter 34|3 pages

Why Am I Here . . . and Not on Mars?

chapter 35|4 pages

What About the Future?

part |2 pages

PART III: CHANGING THE DOING OF THE PROBLEM

chapter 37|3 pages

Identifying Unhelpful Patterns

chapter 39|3 pages

Changing Patterns in Relationships

chapter 40|3 pages

Go with the Pattern

chapter 41|3 pages

On and Off

chapter 42|3 pages

Do Something Different

chapter 43|3 pages

The Unified Front

chapter 44|3 pages

Change Some Aspect of Context

chapter 46|3 pages

Follow the Script

chapter 48|2 pages

How Does the Problem End or Start to End?

chapter 49|3 pages

How Come Things Haven’t Bottomed Out?

chapter 50|3 pages

Tracking Solutions

chapter 51|4 pages

What Do You Do Well?

chapter 52|2 pages

What Worked?

chapter 53|2 pages

Parents’ 911

chapter 54|4 pages

How About a Ritual?

chapter 55|4 pages

Chores

part |2 pages

PART IV: CHANGING ASPECTS OF CONTEXT

part |2 pages

PART V: KEEPING THE BALL ROLLING

chapter 66|3 pages

Keeping an Eye on Change Between Sessions

chapter 67|3 pages

Where’s the Evidence?

chapter 68|4 pages

Identifying and Amplifying Change

chapter 69|3 pages

What Is It About You?

chapter 70|3 pages

Is It Enough? Reviewing Change

chapter 71|3 pages

Recovering from Setbacks

chapter 72|3 pages

Managing Ups and Downs

chapter 73|3 pages

The Scrapbook of Life

chapter 74|6 pages

Certifiably Changed

chapter 75|3 pages

Facing the Future