Ready-to-use therapeutic exercises for overcoming parenting deficits

The Parenting Skills Homework Planner provides complete, customizable, copy-ready exercises for use with parents in therapy. Designed as a companion for the Parenting Skills Treatment Planner, this invaluable resource can also be used alone to facilitate counseling and help clients take a more proactive role. Organized by topic, each section provides specific goals for each exercise and suggests additional exercises that may help clients organize their thoughts and behaviors surrounding complex family dynamics. From behavioral problems and negative relationships to career development, blended families, grandparenting, and much more, this book provides practical tools for therapists helping clients navigate the landmines of parenthood.

In an era of brief therapy, tangible homework assignments help clients continue their therapeutic work outside of the session, offering a quicker, more effective route to solving parenting skills deficits. This book provides insightful prompts and helpful exercises designed to uncover the root of the problem, focus on a solution, and help clients think deeply and critically about past and ongoing behaviors and habits.

• Use tested homework assignments independently, or in alignment with the Parenting Skills Treatment Planner
• Customize each exercise to suit each client's situation using downloadable files
• Help clients get more out of therapy by using time between sessions productively
• Tackle issues relating to abuse, depression, school difficulties, divorce, poverty, and more

Today's complex family structures, combined with increased childhood pressures from school, peers, and the general culture, make parenting a more difficult job than ever before. Homework assignments extend therapy into family time, and facilitate constructive thought and discussion outside of the session. With 60 customizable exercises tailored to specific parenting problems, the Parenting Skills Homework Planner is an essential resource for the family therapist.

• Contains 60 ready-to-copy homework assignments that can be used to facilitate therapy with parents
• Homework assignments and exercises are keyed to the behaviorally based presenting problems from The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner
• Assignments are available online for quick customization

Customizable, practice-tested exercises for use in counseling and therapy with parents

The Parenting Skills Homework Planner offers counselors and therapists an array of ready-to-use, between- session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode.

This practical sourcebook features:

• Ready-to-copy exercises designed to aid parents
• A quick-reference format with the interactive assignments grouped by behavioral problem, from ADHD and trauma to bullying and sexual abuse
• Directions on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises with stated goals and additional exercises if needed
• Assignments cross-referenced to The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner which give you the ability to quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem
• Downloadable assignments allow you to customize exercises to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs