CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal Children and Adolescents by David Pratt

CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal Children and Adolescents by David Pratt

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

For more than two decades, David Pratt has worked as a foreign correspondent and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East, Arab world, and Islamic world. He has worked for Reuters, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), and the BBC on conflict and foreign affairs. Pratt has reported on wars in the Middle East and Africa, including Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Congo, Sudan, and Somalia, and has twice been a finalist in the Amnesty International Media Awards for his human rights reporting. During a pause in combat around the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan in 1989, he had the dubious pleasure of having tea and a discussion with Osama bin Laden. The Sunday Herald's Foreign Editor is now David Pratt.