Description
A Complete Guide to Mindfulness Tools for Clinicians.
At last, an authoritative book filled with mindfulness tools that deliver an essential set of engaging, practical strategies along with key research and evidence-based information. The awareness boosting methods in this guidebook offer participants a means of reappraising and observing negative and anxious thoughts, habits, pain, and stress in fresh ways that produce new insight, positive change, and a sense of hope.
Featuring over 40 easy to use, reproducible handouts and expertly crafted, guided scripts—such as working with the breath, overcoming depression with here and now pleasantness, calming the anxious mind with sense grounding, expanding a client’s strength narrative, the stress pause S-T-O-P technique, and meditations for peace, acceptance, and re-envisioning pain—this book is ideal for clinicians wanting to integrate mindfulness into their work.
Greg Crosby (verified owner) –
The Mindfulness Toolbox is an excellent resource for therapists and clients! The beauty of Altman’s work is he translates mindfulness into achievable,realistic tools with creative language and engaging metaphors The exercises are well crafted and designed to help a person sort through their problems by focusing on one’s strengths. This user friendly book also has an excellent reference section for further reading and an easy to use index to help locate information in the book.
Susan Mitchell (verified owner) –
A wide variety of very useful Mindfulness tools are presented in a format that is easy to use. Love it!
John Baldoni (verified owner) –
“Mindfulness Tools” is a rich resource for those who help individuals struggling with issues that prevent them from achieving fulfillment. While the book is intended for mental health practitioners, the lessons it contains are applicable to anyone, particularly executive coaches, who are helping others develop self-awareness and improve relations with others. Author Donald Altman has assembled a terrific tool kit that I know I will use in my coaching practice.
jds (verified owner) –
a variety of helpful resources for mindfulness for individuals, children, and families. I definitely recommend this resource. Would also be helpful for anyone interested in understanding mindfulness.
Irene (verified owner) –
This is a great tool with specific handouts for clinicians to use with a variety of populations. Highly recommended for any therapist who uses mindfulness but may feel stuck with a limited number of practices
Hillary Brooks (verified owner) –
This book has a lot of wonderful exercises. I have already used it with clients and find it very helpful.
KayC (verified owner) –
I am a therapist who has used found some of the activities and concepts in this book useful with some of my clients. The book is divided into sections for anxiety, depression, stress and pain which helps me to find the pertinent pages quickly. The author has also given permission to photo copy, so I have used some pages as homework. I plan to get good use out of the book.
baglady (verified owner) –
This is my second mindfulness toolbox book. What I like about it is it is geared for ones learning style. He gives many references for other sources you can easily find. I hope to use this with a group in the future.
S. Alexander (verified owner) –
I love this book! It’s great for therapists (which I am not), but I do the workbook part and it relaxes me so much. Just what I was looking for to calm my anxiety and pay attention to the present.
Blondie (verified owner) –
The workbook has great tools that I have used used for many different applications of mindfulness
BusyMom (verified owner) –
This is an excellent resource for counselors. There are a lot of great exercises and worksheets that are helpful in working with clients.
JRolo (verified owner) –
This book was okay. Some of the exercises were a bit “fluffy” and I had to tweak them to suit my clients. I was hoping for more concrete, hands on exercises. My favourite was “Palm the Present Moment” p. 35. It is a great exercise that may become a staple in my sessions. The book did not entirely meet my expectations but I will still use it! More handouts would have been great.
E. L. Yassine (verified owner) –
Great tool for learning mindfulness. It was recommended to me by my Psychologist. I did all the exercises in the book and found them to be most helpful. I had never heard of this concept so it was interesting to learn. Some of it pertains to the professional however, I felt I learned from that information as well. If you are really interested in learning this concept I would recommend starting here.
Kim (verified owner) –
This delivers what it advertises. It’s not the best and its not the worst but it is helpful if clients want something to take home. I try not to spend all of my sessions working out of books but it never hurts to have some resources such as this one.
watercolor girl (verified owner) –
Use it in teaching mindfulness to patients and residents and has great tools!
Dejan Stevanovic, MD (verified owner) –
it is a nice book and a real toolbox! easy readable and easy applicable. The only thing is missing for me is not referencing in the text the source documents!
MLS (verified owner) –
This has some really great mindfulness activities to use with clients, highly recommend
Patricia Robison (verified owner) –
Useful book to turn to when needing to just the right tool.
Terri D. (verified owner) –
I wish it were spiral bound.
AL (verified owner) –
I am an LMSW working with individuals with persistent and severe mental illness. This is a wonderful resource for me and my clients. One does need orientation and experience in mindfulness to fully utilize and share the exercises. My clients and I have had fun with it, thank you Mr. Altman!
Royal Bush (verified owner) –
Just wanted I wanted, expected, and ordered. Good job, thank you.
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
Excellent practical tools for promoting Mindfulness and its’ integration into everyday life. These applications promote daily practices that can nourish changes in our brains that enhance well being and offer relief from stress, anxiety and depression.
Julia (verified owner) –
This is a great book. I had the book spiralized so it’s easy to make copies for my clients. The book is nicely arranged.
Anna (verified owner) –
These are great mindfulness, tools, but similar to other products. I did not feel it was a lot of new information. If someone is not familiar with mindfulness this is a great starter!
Poetic Justice (verified owner) –
I have BPD and I find this book so helpful
SJRowe (verified owner) –
This is a very helpful hands on tool for teaching mindfulness and supporting others in their meditation journey!
Valerie Williams (verified owner) –
Very good resource which included worksheet that could be printed.
tigres (verified owner) –
Excellent to manage anxiety.
LD04 (verified owner) –
Super helpful for beginning therapists. This book gives you handhelds on how to talk to clients about mindfulness in non-overwhelming language.
Amber C (verified owner) –
Very Helpful in my practice
LL (verified owner) –
excellent product and delivery
Scott Giem (verified owner) –
Good content, helpful tool.
Roberta Pytlik (verified owner) –
As an addiction and mental health counselor, I am using this book at least weekly. I like that it is organized into tips for therapists and each practice is prefaced by what type of learning style could use it most. I also like that the practices are broken into problem areas they would be most helpful for, such as stress or pain. I work with clients of varying attentional and cognitive levels and many of the practices seem to be useful regardless.
Catherine Thorington (verified owner) –
Very helpful for the clinician and client. I would recommend this product!
PJS (verified owner) –
These skills really work, they are good for all of us… clients and psychotherapists alike!
Bret (verified owner) –
Very good exercises in this book.
Ozzytfx (verified owner) –
Great book! Lots of mindfulness techniques that can be shared with the client.
Connyld (verified owner) –
Helpful for therapy
debhiggins (verified owner) –
Good resource
Erma (verified owner) –
Standard CBT based stuff.
Janine Baker (verified owner) –
Great book, I have been learning these techniques to use with patients and they are written well and easy to understand.
Fanman (verified owner) –
Very helful
SouthFloridaGirl (verified owner) –
Great book for therapists to give handouts to their clients. This book I use to help clients with mindfulness. I am a trauma therapist and mindfulness is one of the tools I use to help others to be in the moment and relieve some of their anxiety and stress. This is a wonderful tool for every day life and living in the moment, to be free and anxiety, panic attacks and depression. Many of my clients have been relieved from their symptoms from doing the work in this book and practicing on a daily basis.
Jessica Erickson (verified owner) –
just as described. Great item!
Nicola (verified owner) –
Effective self-help book on relieving anxiety, depression, stress and pain through mindfulness. Contains a lot of useful information and helpful exercises to work through. I am pleased with my purchase and would buy again.
Kanathia Narcisse (verified owner) –
Great therapy techiques for students and staff.
Patti (verified owner) –
Great exercises and easy to use. I bought it to use in residential unit with dual diagnosis (SUD/PTSD) pts.
Sami (verified owner) –
I’ve gone to therapy off and on since 2010 but I never felt better. I always felt so out of control; ruled by my depression and anxiety. Back in February it got really bad…the department chair of my grad program had to pull me out of class and take me to an emergency counseling session because I was on the verge of having a breakdown in the middle of class.
But finally I feel in control. Finally I feel empowered. I finally feel like I have tools to help me with my anxiety and depression when they rear their ugly heads. I’ve also become much better at identifying my thoughts and feelings. The Mindfulness Toolbox helped me do that.
This message is for anybody who wants to feel more in control. Who has felt like they have done things before that have just been temporary fixes. For the person who doesn’t want to have to depend on another person to help them through their problems. For the person who wants to have the tools to “DIY” CBT. CBT is soooooo expensive. But it’s such a great model for depression and anxiety. This book uses a CBT perspective.
I recommend this book to so many people. I suggest getting the paperback copy because it’s easier to make copies of worksheets. I plan on using this book with my clients (I’m studying to be an occupational therapist) and I currently use it for myself. But having the paperback version made it easy to unbind, make copies, hole punch, and store in a 1″ binder for future use.
Gabe (verified owner) –
I do actually like the layout of this book. It’s part of my resources working with my patients on adapting mindful techniques into their daily lives. I keep it simple, but I like to read in this some to prompt my own thoughts for ideas which come with the concepts gained from reading in here. I like the title, think it really is quite fitting. I’ve always used the analogy with patients, my job is to help them build tools they can place in a toolbox they will carry with them a lifetime when I’m long gone. Truth is, this book has some good mind provoking ideas you can stem off of as you build your own as a therapist or a layman. Even if I don’t read the entire thing, I gain from it, as do those I work with. I do suggest it to others without a doubt. Why not 5 stars, I’d have simply done a few things differently, but I’m not going to tare it apart, it deserves respect for the author! They did a fine job. Super would be 5 stars. If I change my views later Ill update.
Adam Harrison (verified owner) –
Great for groups and 1:1
Lisa (verified owner) –
Fantastic book re: mindfulness and managing distress. Very helpful in giving trauma victims resources
Jessica M. (verified owner) –
I’m a therapist who uses ACT and DBT and this book has great worksheets for both modalities. I’m very pleased with this purchase.
T. Campbell (verified owner) –
Haven’t used this yet, but it arrived on time and appears to be as it was advertised.
Jessica Schnieder (verified owner) –
This is an excellent book for group work. The instructions and activities are helpful and useful. Very happy with this purchase.
Olivia (verified owner) –
Easy to read, follow, and understand
jd (verified owner) –
Great book great value
Beach1992 (verified owner) –
This is a good resource for adults and children. I’ve used it for group settings
matty creen (verified owner) –
As a therapist this is a great book to use with clients (and excellent to also use on yourself). Definitely recommended.
Ouzola Customer (verified owner) –
The book is really good! Picked it up for a new job. The seller Goodwill was also super prompt on respondíng to a question about my order! Awesome service from the seller!
Gloria Cunningham (verified owner) –
Look forward to using the resources in this book.