Description
You can get the worksheets once you purchase
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
Howard Epstein, Ph.D. NYC, NY (verified owner) –
I have admired Dr. Pratt for more than 30 years and have followed his career as a therapist, subject-matter expert, educator and clinical leader. His approach to using CBT with people in distress is practical, structured and, most importantly, evidence-based. Long before medicine, mental health, and third-party payors demanded evidence-based treatment, the scientist and educator in Dr. Pratt pursued a test and learn approach to gather the data to support the development of these CBT tools.
Although I have been an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist for most of my career, in my executive coaching practice I have leveraged CBT techniques and tools to help business leaders to set practical and measurable goals (e.g., SMART goals), become more mindful, restructure their thoughts and overcome barriers to more effective and productive behaviors. As Dr. Pratt lays out clearly, when therapeutic or coaching interventions are presented in ways that people can relate to and are comfortable with, their levels of engagement and commitment increase. Taking this approach with my clients enables me to help them understand that the more you put into something, the more you get out of it.
In my work I do not ask people to change their personalities but instead encourage them to try-on and adopt a few tips and techniques to have the impact and effect they want and need to have to be successful. I have adapted a number of the tips, exercises, and worksheets in the CBT Toolbox to share with my clients positive approaches to cope with the demands of our rapidly changing world and enable them to develop the resiliency needed as they take on new roles, face new challenges, and grow in their careers. The activities and tools that Dr. Pratt provides are easily adapted for an adult and non-clinical population. The CBT Toolbox itself is an easy to use workbook that therapists, clinicians, coaches, counselors, etc. can quickly find an exercise or tool or homework assignment. And because everything leads back to observable behavior and measurable change, these tools help me to meet my clients’ expectations to be able to demonstrate ROI and results assurance.
Chapter One lays out Keys to Successful CBT. It also makes clear that a cook book approach or wholesale adoption of the CBT Toolbox is a recipe for failure. It does however reinforce how to best help your clients be successful. I have found the chapters on goal setting, mindfulness, behavioral activation, cognitive processing and restructuring, and social skills training particularly useful. I highly recommend the CBT Toolbox!
Peter D. Mills (verified owner) –
The CBT Toolbox is an excellent resource for therapists, school counselors, teachers and parents. Dr. Pratt walks us through connecting with kids, helping them engage in treatment, identifying distressing thoughts, feeling and situations and gives us practical solutions. Both the causes for distress and the treatments are explained at a level that everyone can understand. The handouts are clear and can be put to use right away. I highly recommend this book for seasoned clinicians, school counselors as well as students new to working with children.
Peter D. Mills Ph.D. M.S.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Don McLean, MS.MA (verified owner) –
Dr. Pratt’s book is a comprehensive analysis of anxiety and depression in this age group. His SMART Goals, Client as investigator, and work sheets make this a practical guide for direct client involvement in successfully coming to terms with his/her issues. His direction for parent involvement is an essential part of the workbook.
CBT at times becomes too cognitive an approach for this age group. Dr. Pratt, however, balances his interventions with a true understanding of the interrelationship of feelings and thinking. His positive approach reinforces the strengths of the child/adolescent and through his “homework type” assignments makes a comfortable fit for these clients.
The Therapist’s Skills Section allows one to take the instructions in this tool kit and develop one’s own insights to a new level by assisting the therapist in how each exercise displays a level of reflection and understanding.
Stephanie Daugherty (verified owner) –
My 11 year old daughter has anxiety and falls on the spectrum. Her therapist asked me to buy her this book for her sessions. I was skeptical at first but the improvements are noticeable and she loves it. When she feels her self getting any negative feelings she reaches right for it and she is now getting a better understanding not only on her own feelings but of those around her too . Worth every penny !
Nour E. (verified owner) –
Very helpful
Peter Kost, Ph.D. (verified owner) –
Dr. Pratt has written and excellent resource on CBT to assist therapists in working with children and adolescents dealing with anxiety, depression, and suicidal impulses. This Tool book provides easy to understand CBT guidelines and therapist tips, as well as many worksheets therapists can use to help their clients. The workbook also includes a section to encourage parent involvement in their Child’s treatment. I highly recommend this resource from Dr. Pratt.
Mary Romm (verified owner) –
Great book for working with teenagers, particularly using the TF-CBT framework. There is great psychoeducation on depression/anxiety, work towards goals/treatment planning, coping skills, feelings work, etc. Highly recommend if working with anxious/depressed teenagers.
Tracie (verified owner) –
great for the office
Bridget Hahn (verified owner) –
Love
DHINSAV (verified owner) –
Thorough in explanations and options for worksheets. Very helpful for school based counseling services.
Jennifer Shasteen (verified owner) –
Understanding and helping your child is a parents responsibility. Counseling combined with CBT at home can keep your loved ones on track to a happy successful life as an adult. Must read absolutely
Guest (verified owner) –
I am very impressed! This is my favorite of the series so far. I am learning so much and found it so inspiring that I immediately wanted to use it. It is very structured and designed meticulously for order and building skills concretely. Authors, please do one for self esteem. I will definitely buy it. You cannot put a price on spiral binding, either. Well, you can, literally, but the value is far higher!
Ánalyn García (verified owner) –
It’s a must have!! Very useful!
jackmack (verified owner) –
Very helpful working with kids, recommend it.
Janis Radcliffe (verified owner) –
I never usually bother writing reviews, but was so pleased with this book; it’s informative, brilliantly presented, extremely useful for my counselling practice! Thank you
John J Dlugosz (verified owner) –
This is by far the most comprehensive work book to use when all else fails! When you have no idea what to do and need some highly useful activities for children and youth this is going be your go to book! Dr. Pratt is a gifted clinician with decades of experience and his passion and wisdom for helping children and youth are reflected in this very useful tool!
sharon (verified owner) –
It gives a lot of informative information that helps you understand how to work with people/children with these disorders.
Amber T (verified owner) –
As a new therapist, this has been very helpful and has lead to many good discussions when I needed a little more direction. I enjoy these worksheets. They are easy to understand and I especially like the educational handouts and descriptions. Definitely recommend! Very relevant info.