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CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal Children and Adolescents: Over 220 Worksheets and Therapist Tips to Manage Moods, Build Positive Coping Skills & Develop Resiliency
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About CBT Toolbox For Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal
From the Back Cover In this comprehensive toolbox, Dr. David Pratt shares essential cognitive and behavioral skill building activities created and honed over his 40 year career. Each worksheet and handout is accompanied by straight-forward explanations, highlighted as "Therapist Tips" to guide the clinician in presenting the material to children and adolescents in an empathic and effective style. The highly practical interventions are structured activities that are reproducible and ready-to-go for sessions. Help your young clients get the most out of therapy, and start improving the challenges in their lives with: Tools for mood management Mindfulness practices Cognitive processing and cognitive restructuring Teaching essential social skills Game plans to face and fight anxiety Managing self-harm and suicidal urges Motivation counseling and goal setting Strategies to improve parent involvement Product Description In this comprehensive toolbox, Dr. David Pratt shares essentials cognitive and behavioral skill building activities created and honed over his 40 year career. Each worksheet and handout is accompanied by straight-forward explanations, highlighted as 'Therapist Tips' to guide the clinician in presenting the material to children and adolescents in an empathic and effective style. The highly practical interventions are structured activities that are reproducible and ready-to-go for sessions. Help your young clients get the most out of therapy, and start improving the challenges in their lives with: - Tools for mood management - Mindfulness practices - Cognitive processing and cognitive restructuring - Teaching essential social skills - Game plans to face and fight anxiety - Managing self-harm and suicidal urges - Motivation counseling and goal setting - Strategies to improve parent involvement From the Author Why I Wrote This BookI developed this workbook over the past 20 years while working with severely emotionally disturbed children and teens in a psychiatric facility, as well as in my private practice. Doing therapy with young children and adolescents presents many challenges. These kids are often "reluctant doers." They can be overwhelmed by their problems and highly mistrustful of even the most compassionate therapist. Reaching this population and engaging them in meaningful therapy is quite a challenge indeed.During my time at Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center, I began developing a group therapy program for adolescents with significant depression, anxiety, and suicidality. I researched the existing evidence-based treatment programs for adolescent depression, identified the essential ingredients of successful treatment, and began to develop my own structured therapeutic activities. My co-therapist and I weren't sure what was going to happen when we introduced these activities in group therapy, but we thought it was worth a try. Believe me when I say that we were ready to duck! But to our surprise (and great relief), the kids responded really well. They actually came to group, participated in the activities, and began to self-disclose intimate details of their lives and struggles. And, our post-group anonymous satisfaction surveys showed they both enjoyed and benefited from the group!What I learned is that when treatment is presented in a manner that children can relate to and are comfortable with, they are quite willing to engage in productive therapy. Kids have a schema for doing structured learning activities from their experiences in school, and we based our exercises on this model. Using a psycho-educational format, we taught these kids a variety of skills and helped them practice these skills together in a supportive group. We didn't let them sit in group and be befuddled by open-ended, unstructured therapy questions, like one might do in a "process group." Rather, we relied heavily on the use of structured paper/pencil worksheets and role-play exercises. We praised every approximation of
