More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth PDF

Rating: (31 reviews) Author: Liana Lowenstein ISBN : 9780968519912 New from $14.23 Format: PDF

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This sequel is filled with more creative assessment and treatment techniques for use in individual, group, and family settings. The book begins with a variety of engagement and assessment activities providing clinicians with strategies to build therapeutic rapport and diagnostic tools to assist in treatment planning. The remaining four chapters provide activities to help children and teens identify feeling states, cope with emotional difficulties, manage anger, strengthen interpersonal skills, and enhance self-esteem. There are also techniques to deal with challenging client behavior. Each activity is described within a framework that recommends age suitability, preferred treatment modality, and appropriate stage of treatment. Materials needed to complete the activity are outlined. Several activities include worksheets that may be reproduced for use with clients. The book includes detailed instructions for all activities and a discussion section that further clarifies application and process. Activities are geared to 4-16 year-olds. Mental health professionals and teachers will find this book invaluable.

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• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Champion Pr; 1 edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968519911
• ISBN-13: 978-0968519912
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth PDF

This book is perfect for anyone working with at-risk children and adolescents. As a child therapist, I found that the activities helped to engage even children who are highly reluctant to engage in therapy. There are a wide variety of activities in the book that range in age from preschool to teenager and address just about every treatment issue you could think of. Most important, the activities are fun for the kids while also being therapeutic. I would highly recommend this book-- it's worth every penny.

By Live2Cruise VINE VOICE

This is a book that a therapist can put to use immediately. It is extemely well-organized:

-chapters divided by topics

-a chart indicating activities for each stage of therapy, modality and age

-clear directions included with each activity

Many of the pages are reproducible, and most of the activities require materials that are easy to find. Best of all, the activities are clearly therapeutic!

My only complaint (and it's minor so I'm not removing any stars) is that several activities involve candy. Since I work with elementary students in a district that has implemented the federal nutrition guidelines, I cannot give students candy nor can I give any food as a reward. Some of those activities can be "tweaked" so that I give stickers instead. However, that's a very minor point, and overall, the book is a fabulous resource!

Don't miss Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes, a similar book co-authored by Lowenstein, that contains extensive activities for pre-schoolers, elementary children and teens who have been sexually abused.

By ethereal girl