Structured Counseling Activities for Couples, Families, and Individuals: A step-by-step, practical guide to understanding and using fifteen structured ... for couples, families, and individuals

It is good book, very informative. Tx.

This book provides many experiential techniques across many theories with clear step-by-step instructions for implementing them. I appreciate that the focus of this book is on how to apply the techniques and tools, in comparison to learning the theories and their techniques often provided in academic settings. This will be a very useful tool to guide me in applying them in a clinical setting. Very glad I found them.

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The major strength of this book is that it presents a set of powerful experiential activities for individuals, couples, and families. In my work with couples and individuals I have found the entire range of different activities to be valuable, but particularly valuable to me are the ones that are based within Gestalt (emotionally-focused) and Marriage and Family therapy. These activities seem to be rarely taught in academic training programs. Instead, one would have to go to a range of workshops to learn them. This book gives a practical, step-by-step description for how and when to use each of these structured techniques with clients. The format makes it easy to follow. Clients find the activities to be particularly helpful as they attempt to change dysfunctional behaviors and patterns. The book is constructed in a way that experienced and less experienced therapist will benefit in using these activities in working with individuals and couples.

While I don't do family or couples therapy, I found the structured activities in this manual applicable working with individuals addressing a variety of issues. I especially liked that the manual is experiential in nature and doesn't just describe an activity but the steps to do it. It has activities for couples and families as well as individuals and works compatibly with a range of treatment modalities such as Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Role-Reversal and marriage and family therapy, to name just a few. Clients respond well to the experiential style offered in the manual.

This book offers many useful activities for those working with families, couples and individauls. It is user friendly in that it doesn't just describe an activity, but provides clear step by step instruction. It is thoughtfully designed to effectively address a wide variety of issues.

The activities in this book are very useful to help families and clients. I work with children, and the activities in this book help bring families closer. The exercises teach a new way of relating to each other.