Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner (Practice Planners)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
• Published by: Wiley; Pap/Dis edition December 14, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471295116
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471295112
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
Help couples quickly develop the psychological skills they need to maintain healthier relationships

As a couples therapist, 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. In today's managed care environment, rapid results are everything, and many psychotherapists are finding that pencil-and-paper homework exercises provide one highly effective tool for achieving those goals.

The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner arms you with dozens of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This valuable, time-saving tool features:

• More than sixty copier-ready exercises covering all major presenting symptoms affecting relationships
• Quick-reference format-exercises are grouped by skill set, such as improving communications, handling parenting problems, and resolving sexual issues
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises cross-referenced to The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner - so you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem
• Includes a computer disk which contains all the exercises in a Windows-based word processing formatâallowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and requirements

The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner is an indispensable tool of the trade for all mental health professionals who work with couples.

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Help couples quickly develop the psychological skills they need to maintain healthier relationships

As a couples therapist, 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. In today's managed care environment, rapid results are everything, and many psychotherapists are finding that pencil-and-paper homework exercises provide one highly effective tool for achieving those goals.

The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner arms you with dozens of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This valuable, time-saving tool features:

• More than sixty copier-ready exercises covering all major presenting symptoms affecting relationships
• Quick-reference format—exercises are grouped by skill set, such as improving communications, handling parenting problems, and resolving sexual issues
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises cross-referenced to The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner—so you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem
• Includes a computer disk which contains all the exercises in a Windows-based word processing format—allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

The Brief Couples Therapy Homework Planner is an indispensable tool of the trade for all mental health professionals who work with couples.

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Reader Reviews
This book an excellent tool for counselors involved in counseling couples. It has some great thought provoking assignments that the couple can do at home and then process in session. I feel that the homework presented in the planner will save the counselor time but also increase the counselor's knowledge of how to best help the couple.