Books Recommended for Therapists of Children, Adolescents and Families
The following books have a solid reputation as being incredibly helpful for any clinician working with kids and their parents. They have proven themselves over time and with experience. These publications are recommended for consideration of therapists looking for practical resources that are useful for themselves and their clients.
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Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach by Ross W. Greene, J. Stuart Ablon
From the Publisher:
The first comprehensive presentation for clinicians of the groundbreaking approach popularized in Ross Greene's acclaimed parenting guide, The Explosive Child, this book provides a detailed framework for effective, individualized intervention with highly oppositional children and their families. Many vivid examples and Q&A sections show how to identify the specific cognitive factors that contribute to explosive and noncompliant behavior, remediate these factors, and teach children and their adult caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively. The book also describes challenges that may arise in implementing the model and provides clear and practical solutions. Two special chapters focus on intervention in schools and in therapeutic/restrictive facilities.
Defiant Teens: A Clinician's Manual for Assessment and Family Intervention
by Russell A. Barkley, Arthur L. Robin, Gwenyth H. Edwards
From the Publisher:
This authoritative manual presents an 18-step program designed both to teach parents the skills they need to manage difficult adolescent behavior and to improve family relationships overall. The first nine steps of the program modify the approach presented in Russell A. Barkley's DEFIANT CHILDREN, SECOND EDITION, to focus on developmental concerns of adolescence. The authors delineate clear procedures for assessing defiance in teens and working with parents, alone or in groups, to reverse problem behavior. Steps 10 through 18 are conducted with parents and teenagers together, utilizing a proven family therapy model developed by Arthur L. Robin and Sharon Foster. Clinicians are shown how to help all family members learn to negotiate, communicate, and problem-solve more effectively, while facilitating adolescents' individuation and autonomy. Featuring a lay-flat binding for ease of photocopying, the book includes reproducible forms that enable clinicians to gauge the nature, diversity, and severity of parent-adolescent conflicts; assess for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD); and evaluate parental psychological adjustment. Reproducible handouts for families reinforce crucial ideas and skills imparted in-session.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment
by Russell A. Barkley
Annotation:
"...includes the latest findings on the nature, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of ADHD...with selected chapters written by experts in the field, providing clear guidelines for practice in clinical, school, and community settings."
From the Publisher:
This new second edition incorporates the latest findings on the nature, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As in the previous edition, Dr. Barkley includes contributions from other leading scientist-practitioners, who report on their respective areas of expertise. Readers of this book will find current, practical information on nearly every aspect of the disorder. In-depth assessment and treatment guidelines are supported by updated documentation on outcomes, and three new chapters focus specifically on adults.
Note: Practitioners wishing to implement the assessment and treatment recommendations delineated in the Handbook are advised to purchase the companion Workbook, which contains a full set of forms, questionnaires, and handouts, in a large-size format with permission to photocopy.
Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks
by Robert Reid Wilson
Annotation:
"...guide offering help to those who suffer from panic anxiety...explains how panic attacks occur and offers a five-step strategy for controlling those attacks."
From the Publisher:
Panic. Almost everyone has experienced it at one time or another, but in the form of a panic attack, it can be incapacitating. In Don't Panic, a leading expert offers an accessible and practical self-help program for reducing and eliminating these attacks. With insight and compassion, he explains how attacks occur, provides a detailed 5-step strategy for controlling the moment of panic and shows how to use breathing exercises, focused thinking and mental imagery to elicit the body's natural "Calming Response." Packed with useful information that can begin reducing the power of these attacks immediately, this book, a perennial seller, is an invaluable tool for the millions of Americans coping with this crippling condition.
Loosening the Grip: A Handbook of Alcohol Information with Powerweb by Jean Kinney
From the Publisher:
This text offers a thorough approach to understanding alcohol--its physical and psychological effects on an individual, as well as its emotional impact on the family. It is the only comprehensive, self-contained book to cover the range of psychological factors, physical complications, treatment options, and family concerns; easy to read, it is suitable for academics, students, or families of alcoholics.
Hypnosis & Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning by William S. Kroger, William D. Fezler
This textbook is a must have for any beginning or regular practioner who wants to utilize self-hypnosis to help their clients deal with numerous disorders. Practical information is given on what guided imagery is, and how to employ it in clinical settings. Imagery scenes are provided for induction, as well as symptom reduction. Very useful for relaxation training, for providing home-use audio tapes, for helping clients tolerate and manage difficult emotions in therapy.
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
Annotation:
Outlines effects of abuse & the ways women cope/ explores the healing process/profiles survivors/etc.
From the Publisher:
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guidebook that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
Definitive in scope, The Courage to Heal speaks directly to the survivor in a warm and personal way:
TAKING STOCK -- outlines the effects of child sexual abuse and the ways women cope over time.
THE HEALING PROCESS -- explores each stage from the decision to heal and remembering through breaking silence, knowing it wasn't your fault, nurturing the inner child, and grief and anger, to resolution and moving on.
CHANGING PATTERNS -- offers in-depth guidance for shifting self-defeating patterns in specific areas of one's present life, including self-esteem, feelings, intimacy, sexuality, and dealing with families.
SUPPORTERS OF SURVIVORS -- provides insight and strategies for partners of survivors, family members, and counselors.
COURAGEOUS WOMEN -- profiles survivors who share the challenges and triumphs of their own healing journeys.
HONORING THE TRUTH -- a substantial new Afterword that refutes the "false memory" argument and presents a thorough and enlightening response to the backlash.
RESOURCE GUIDE -- fully updated for this edition -- informs readers about therapy, healing activities, recommended reading, support groups, self-help programs, and services and organizations.
Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Laura Davis
Annotation:
Takes survivor step-by-step through healing process thru use of checklists, open-ended questions, writing exercises, etc.
From the Publisher:
In this groundbreaking companion to "The Courage to Heal", Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of child sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides the survivor through the healing process.
Survival Skills -- Teaches survivors to create a safe, supportive environment, ask for help, deal with crisis periods, and choose therapy.
Aspects Of Healing -- Focuses on the healing process: gaining a capacity for hope, breaking silence, letting go of shame, turning anger into action, planning a confrontation, preparing for family contact, and affirming personal progress.
Guidelines For Healing Sexually -- Redefines the concept of "safe sex" and establishes healthy ground rules for sexual contact.
Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
From the Publisher:
There's nothing as wonderful as starting to heal, waking up in the morning and knowing that nobody can hurt you if you don't let them.
"Beginning to Heal" offers hope and guidance for all survivors starting the healing journey. No matter how great your pain today, you can not only heal but thrive. Based on the authors' bestseller "The Courage to Heal", this revised edition of "Beginning to Heal" takes you through the key stages of the healing process, from crisis times to breaking the silence, grief, and anger, to resolution and moving on. It includes inspirational highlights, clear explanations, practical suggestions, and compelling accounts of survivors' pain, their strength, and their triumphs.
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