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Now fully updated, this book provides an array of homework assignments to help families develop the insight and skills needed to work through their problems. The Second Edition is filled with exercises covering behavioral and psychological problems, including family-of-origin interference, depression in family members, divorce, financial conflict, adolescent and parent conflicts, traumatic life events, and dependency issues. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM contains all the exercises in Microsoft Word r format, allowing clinicians to customize them to suit their clients' unique styles and needs.

LOUIS J. BEVILACQUA, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Vice President of Life Counseling Services (LCS), which has over twenty-five office locations throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida. Dr. Bevilacqua is the Internship Training Director at LCS, which is an Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) approved training program.

FRANK M. DATTILIO, PhD, ABPP, maintains a dual faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 29. He has written more than 200 professional publications and fourteen books in the areas of marital and family discord, anxiety disorders, and forensic and clinical psychology.

PracticePlanner“ Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Activity/Family Imbalance
When Can We Be Together?
Addictions
How Much Does It Cost?
Staying Clean
What Else Can I Do?
Keeping Busy
Adoption
This Is How I Feel
My Safe Place
Anger Managemeny
Is It Passive, Aggressive, or Assertive?
Why Am I So Angry
What Happens When I Get Angry
I Don't Have Any Bruises But I Still Hurt
Go Blow Out Some Candles
Anxiety
It's Us Against Anxiety
My/Our Daughter Is Afraid To Go To School
When I Feel Anxious It Is Likeà
My Mother's Anxiety Makes Me Feelà
Behavioral Problems in Children and Adolescents
My Child Just Won't Listen
Acting As If
We Have to Have Some Kind of Agreement
Charting Our Course
Bipolar
My Mom Just Won't Stay on Her Medication
Blaming
What Do I Say? What Can I Say?
Don't Look at Me Ask Him
The Blaming Jar
What's My Job?
Blended Families
I Don't Like It When Youà
I Have Too Many Parents
We Need to Agree
Communication Problems
How Can I Talk So He'll Listen?
Everything Is Always Negative In Our House
Death/Loss Issues
Remember When
Until We Meet Again, Love
The Questions, Feelings, Comments/Concerns Game
Dependency
Dependency Go Away
Depression
Do I Have To Be Depressed?
My Positive Script
Someone in My Family Is Depressed
What Am I Thinking When I Am Depressed?
What Do Others Value About Me?
My/Our Daughter is Depressed
Disengagement/Loss of Family Cohesion
Circles of Perception
Eating Disorder
I Need To Get Control
What Am I Thinking?
Why Is She Doing This?
Estranged Family Members
We're No Longer Speaking To Each Other"
I Miss You
Family Business Conflicts
A Changing of the Guard
Who Is Doing What?
Family of Origin Interference
Thanks, But No Thanks
How Can I Tell Her to Mind Her Own Business?
Foster Care
I Want To Go Home
Geographic Relocation
We're Moving
Should We or Should We Not?
Inheritance Disputes
He Always Did Like You Best
Interracial Family Problems
They're Calling Me a Half-Breed
Intolerance/Defensiveness
Before and After
Why Can't You Understand My Side For Once?
Why Can't You Understand My Side For Once?

Jealousy/Insecurity
I Don't Have To Be Jealous Or Insecure Anymore
I am Not Jealous
Life-Threatening/Chronic Illness
Johnny Has Leukemia
Multiple-Birth Dilemmas
With Seven You Get an Eggroll
How Are We Going to Do This?
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Knowing What to Expect
Physical Disabilities
Why Is Dad in Bed All Day?
Physical/Verbal/Psychological Abuse
What Is Okay and What Is Not Okay?
Religious/Spiritual Conflicts
I Don't Know What to Believe in Anymore
Schizophrenia
My Brother Hears Voices
School Problems
My Teenager Is Truant
Separation/Divorce
My Parents Are Getting a Divorce
Sexual Abuse
I Will Be a Survivor!
Getting It Out
I Gotta Stop Thinking This Way
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Sexual Preferences
I Am Still Danny
Suicide Attempts
I Want Things to Get Better
Creating a Positive Outlook
Unwanted/Unplanned Pregnancies
Honey, Guess What?
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Family Therapy Homework Planner, Second Edition

Family Therapy Homework Planner, Second Edition

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