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: Wiley, 1999

Synopsis

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 PlannersTM sold.

About this title

From the Author

As the Senior Author and Series Editor, I am pleased to announce that new editions of four of our Treatment Planners, Homework Planners, and Progress Notes Planners have been released. We have been working on them as a team of authors for over two years. I am indebted to my coauthors who have deep expertise in the clinical field addressed in each Planner. I salute them and I believe you will find their work to be of the highest clinical caliber.   This new edition of the Homework Planner includes new exercises to help the client work toward recovery between treatment sessions. Each chapter in the Homework Planner has homework tasks that are created specifically for a problem dealt with in the parallel Treatment Planner. Although each homework assignment is tied to an Intervention in its parallel Treatment Planner, the exercises are created to stand alone as useful without using the Treatment Planner content. Some of the exercises have been shortened to make client compliance more likely and new homework assignments have been added also. Chapters dealing with new problems in the Treatment Planner have resulted in a new set of 3-5 homework exercises in the Homework Planner to support Interventions for that new problem. If you have not tried using our Homework Planners, I think you will find them an excellent adjunct to increase client treatment engagement.   Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr. PhD

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0471344656
• ISBN 13: 9780471344650
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304