With The Therapist's Notebook, a compilation of original ideas by practicing clinicians, you can tap into the knowledge and experience of seasoned professionals to give your clients tangible, field-tested assignments that will represent their work and progress in therapy. Appropriate for practicing marriage and family therapists, psychologists, social workers, and other therapists of any professional affiliation who deal with children, adolescents, adults, couples, or families, this dynamic handbook provides you with reproducible handouts and homework activities that are quick and easy and require little effort or experience to use.

Lorna L Hecker, Sharon A. Deacon

I: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Individ Uals; 1: The Voodoo Doll Intervention; 2: Living a New Story; 3: When "Bad" Is Good; 4: Addressing the Critical and Supportive Voices Through Art Therapy; 5: The Toxic Monster; 6: Smush 'Em; 7: The Many Roles People Play; 8: Feeling from the Inside Out; 9: Objects in the Rearview Mirror; 10: Through the Eyes of a Child; 11: Assisting Clients in Establishing Personal Boundaries; 12: Sports Talk; 13: Setting Goals and Developing Action Plans; 14: Sculpting for Visual and Kinesthetic Learners; 15: Conscientious Activities for Compulsive Clients; 16: Breaking the Cycle Between Being Passive and Aggressive; 17: The Power of Homework in Survivors' Groups; 18: A "Magic" Aid for Hypnosis and Suggestion in Crisis Management; II: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Couples; 19: Assertiveness Homework for Couples; 20: Productive Dialoguing with Couples; 21: Constructive Communication; 22: The Tug-of-War; 23: The 80/20 Principle in Marital Therapy; 24: A Couple's Ordeal of Sorrow; 25: The Use of Controlled Punishment and Ritual in Couples Therapy; 26: The Empathy Expansion Procedure; 27: Primary Perceptual Modalities in Couples Therapy; 28: Imagery Exercises for Couples; 29: Feelings Flash Cards; 30: Gratitude Lists; 31: Rewriting Marriage Vows; 32: Recalling the Way We Were; 33: Feeding the Relationship by Feeding Each Other; 34: Keeping the Honeymoon in the Marriage; 35: First Date Recollections and Fantasies with Couples; 36: Structured Trial Separation; 37: Mate Selection Criteria for Compatibility; 38: Couple Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire; 39: Sexual Response and Interaction Inventory; 40: Using Gender as a Therapeutic Technique; 41: The Intimate Justice Question; 42: The Diversity Dilemma; 43: Negotiating Drug-Free Activities; 44: The "Mrs. K'negdo/Mrs. Opposite" Assignment; III: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Families; 45: Strategies for Building Stronger Families; 46: Family Assessment Tool; 47: The Therapeutic Journey; 48: Good Cops and Bad Cops in Parenting; 49: The "Talk About" Game; 50: A Box of Tenderness; 51: Out of the Middle with a Toss of the Coin; 52: The "Oprah" Approach; 53: Teamwork; 54: Involving Children in Family Therapy; 55: Videotaped Coaching; 56: The Family Constitution Activity; 57: The Systemic Wave; 58: Letter from the Grave; 59: Dealing with a Fire Setter; 60: Involving Larger Systems; IV: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Children; 61: "The Many Sides of Me"; 62: My Uniqueness; 63: My Family in the News; 64: The "Key" to Anger Control; 65: It's Okay to Cry; 66: Greeting Card Messages; 67: Helpful Homemade Props for Children in Therapy; 68: The Puzzling Problem-Solving Activity; 69: Prescribing Fluctuations in Developmental Time; 70: HELP! My Child Won't Do Homework!; 71: Divorce and Children; 72: Red Light/Green Light; 73: Awards; V: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Adolescents; 74: Teenage Clients' Favorite Music as an Aid in Therapy; 75: "I Am the Expert!"; 76: I Wish I Had the Cosby Family; 77: Beliefs and Tactics That Encourage Behavior Problems; 78: Rewriting Youth Stories; 79: Soap Talk; VI: Therapist Helpers; 80: Assessing Client Risk of Violence; 81: Assessing Client Risk of Suicide; 82: Client Assessment and Treatment Planning; 83: Use of Disclosure Statements in Practice