The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2 (PDF)

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.