With virtual therapy becoming ever more ubiquitous, how can you keep young clients engaged while providing them with the effective, evidence-based treatment they need? Look no further! Dr. Amy Marschall is back with even more teletherapy interventions for your practice in her newest book, Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Volume 2. As with the first volume, you'll find over 125 ready-to-use telehealth games, exercises, and activities tailored to each client's unique interests, treatment goals, and developmental level. As an added bonus, this volume also features a directory of activities based on what telehealth features are available to your client so you can find an activity that works regardless of the device, WiFi restrictions, and platform options available. Designed to fit with any therapeutic orientation, this toolbox targets the same skills as the first volume, including: - Frustration tolerance - Perspective taking - Problem-solving - Cognitive flexibility - Perfectionism - Empathy building - Winning and losing well - Impulse control - Decision-making - Emotion regulation - Following directions - And more!
Keeping kids engaged in therapy comes with its own set of challenges - and doing it over a screen is no exception. As clinicians increasingly make the switch to remote therapy, the need for kid-friendly telehealth interventions has become more crucial than ever. In Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, Dr. Amy Marschall has created an arsenal of flexible, creative, and fun virtual interventions that will allow you to provide effective, evidence-based treatment while still capturing the attention of even the youngest of clients. Inside you'll find over 100 ready-to-use telehealth games, exercises, and activities that offer the same therapeutic benefits as your in-person sessions. Each intervention includes suggested age ranges and step-by-step instructions, equipping you with the tools you need to effectively (and confidently!) provide treatment through a screen. You'll also receive guidance on how to create your own kid-friendly, virtual intervention that are unique to your practice! Designed to fit with any therapeutic orientation, this toolbox targets a variety of skills: - Frustration tolerance - Perspective taking - Problem solving - Cognitive flexibility - Perfectionism - Empathy building - Winning and losing well - Impulse control - Decision-making - Emotion regulation - Following directions - And more!
This book examines state-of-the-science telemental health interventions for children and families. It explores the adaptations necessary to provide remote formats of evidence-based models, such as parent-child interaction therapy and trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy. Chapters provide clear descriptions of how to implement interventions in a telemental health format, a review and critique of the empirical evidence supporting them, and useful case studies. The volume addresses the use of telemental health care within parenting interventions, individual child interventions, and family interventions, with particular attention paid to the evidence base of efficacy for families from marginalized and underserved communities. Key topics covered include: Remote assessment of child cognitive functioning Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT). Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). Mom Power, for mothers with histories of substance use or trauma. Applied behavioral analysis for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Cognitive behavioral therapy for children with anxiety. Telemental health with LGBTQ+ youth Telemental Health Care for Children and Families is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and all mental health professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students across many interrelated disciplines, including developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, family studies, social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy, and pediatrics.
The Teletherapy Toolkit? is the first-ever book written on teletherapy. If you're a therapist who was thrown into teletherapy because of the pandemic, and you're struggling to find effective and easy-to-use therapeutic activities with your clients, this book will show you how to:?Keep kids engaged by using proven therapeutic activities that work just as well as if they were sitting in front of you.?Avoid the biggest teletherapy mistakes most therapists make with Teletherapy Dos-And-Don'ts. ?Design your teletherapy so you can feel comfortable leading client sessions without worrying about the details using the Teletherapy Essentials Checklist?.?Help children and families better understand and address their issues with parent-information and psycho-ed sheets.?Stop questioning yourself because you feel unprepared and reinstate your confidence. Research shows that teletherapy is as effective as in-person counseling. After watching my own team of therapists struggle to find theory-grounded therapeutic techniques to use, I felt compelled to write this book to help you provide great therapeutic care for the kids and families who need it most right now.
In my practice as a psychologist, I have met with hundreds of kids. These kids have come from all kinds of homes, family systems, and backgrounds, and they present with all kinds of challenges. The one thing they have in common is that, deep down, every single child wants to be good. Do they act out to seek attention they do not feel they can get otherwise? Absolutely! Do they choose frustrating behaviors because they don't know better ways of getting their needs met? For sure!So how can we, the adults, help children learn how to manage and communicate their emotions appropriately? Enter this book!This workbook is created for use by professionals who work with children with emotional and behavioral issues and the adults who love and care for those children. It is intended for use in a clinical context, or by teachers who are trying to implement trauma-informed resources in their classroom. The activities and tools provided here are designed for children from approximately age 5-12. Although teens could also benefit from these skills, the language used is geared toward a younger audience.These tools are presented to help kids learn skills for self-regulation, mindfulness, and communication of feelings. The order provided is intended to allow children to build upon skills they have already learned. Although this order is recommended, professionals can use their discretion about what tools will be most helpful at a given time. This book is designed to help kids get in touch with their feelings and share these feelings in an appropriate and effective way.Although this book was written with kids with mental health challenges in mind, many of these activities can benefit anyone! What child hasn't had a day when they need to focus on slowing down and taking big breaths?The book starts with tools to help parents implement these skills in their home, then introduces relaxation exercises to help kids calm their bodies when they are escalated. It then progresses into teaching them how to identify what is going on inside of their bodies, even when they might not have a specific name for that feeling. Next, it helps kids put names to what they are experiencing and practice asking for what they need. (As adults, we need to be aware of when kids are communicating needs to us so that they learn that we respond and are there to help them!) Finally, using mindfulness and cognitive behavioral techniques, this book provides resources to help kids cope with negative feelings and thoughts safely and effectively.In my psychology practice, I work with kids who have a hard time expressing their feelings every day. A common complaint I hear is, "Why do I feel this way? I don't have a reason to feel sad/angry/upset!" I like to say, "If feelings were logical, I would be out of a job." No feeling is inherently "good" or "bad," but some feelings are unpleasant and can seem irrational or even shameful. The activities in this book will help kids to not only understand and communicate their feelings, but it encourages them to develop a healthy relationship with their emotions, even when those emotions are unpleasant.I can't promise no bad days, but I can help provide the tools to make those days bearable!
Play Therapy and Telemental Health gives clinicians the tools they need to bring their therapy sessions online. Chapters present the fundamentals of play therapy and telemental health therapy and introduce play therapists to a variety of special populations and interventions specific to telemental health. Expert contributors discuss using a wide variety of telehealth interventions-- including Virtual Sandtray(R)(c), nature play, and EMDR --with children affected by autism, trauma, and more. Readers will learn how the fundamentals of play therapy can be expanded to provide effective treatment in web-based sessions. This is a vital guide for any clinician working in play therapy in the twenty-first century.
"The newly updated Digital Play Therapy focuses on the responsible integration of technology into play therapy during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. With a respect for the many different modalities and approaches under the play therapy umbrella, this book incorporates therapist fundamentals, play therapy tenets, and practical information for the responsible integration of digital tools into play therapy treatment. All chapters have been updated, and new chapters discuss strategies for using teletherapy effectively during and beyond the pandemic. This revised edition provides a solid grounding both for clinicians who are brand new to the incorporation of digital tools as well as to those who have already begun to witness digital play therapy's power"--
This book for teachers, parents, and others who work with children is adapted from traditional meditation and yoga techniques and presented in factual, kid-friendly language. Breathe, Chill presents 70 breathing, meditation and relaxation activities adapted for children of all ages. Some exercises offer an outlet for tension or stress, while others stealthily teach deep breathing skills, present moment awareness and relaxation. Organized into three sections, Breath Play, Breathing Techniques, and Relaxation and Meditation Techniques, each exercise is broken down in the same format: What is it? How does it help me? How do I do it?
Being a therapist is exhausting, and who has time for self-care? Just color some pictures instead of dealing with your stress! We hope these 69 (heh heh) pages of coloring and activity sheets bring you joy and laughter. We can't wait to see what you create!Please be advised, this book contains language and imagery that some might find offensive, and it is absolutely not suitable for children, the faint of heart, or the British.
