A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers

by Luciano L'Abate

Overview

Never has the need for a compendium of self-help workbooks been so great!

From the founder of the world’s first PhD program in Family Psychology comes an extensive guide to nearly all of the mental health workbooks published through 2002. Placed together in one volume for the first time, A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers includes reviews and evaluates the complexity of each workbook in regards to its form, content, and usability by the client. From abuse to women’s issues, this annotated bibliography is alphabetized by author, but can also be researched by subject.

While self-help workbooks are currently not as popular or as mainstream as self-help books and video, that could soon change. Self-help workbooks are versatile, cost-effective, and can be mass-produced. The workbook user is active rather than passive, and the mental healthcare worker can analyze a more personal response from the user, whether in the office or via the Internet. A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers brings these workbooks together into one sourcebook to suit anyone’s needs.

Each self-help workbook is reviewed according to specific criteria:

• contents
• structure
• specificity
• goal
• level of abstraction
• a subjective evaluation usually concludes the review of the workbook

A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers also includes:

• an in-depth introduction discussing the need for workbooks in mental health practices
• indices for subject as well as author
• an address list of the publishing houses for the workbooks annotated in the bibliography
• an Informed Consent Form to verify compliance with ethical and professional regulations before administering a workbook to a client

A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers offers you a complete resource to self-help workbooks for all mental health subjects. Dr. L’Abate’s highly selective review process helps you find exactly what you need. This unique sourcebook is vital for mental health clinicians, counselors, schoolteachers, and college and graduate students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789022622
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2004
Series:	Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health Ser.
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Criteria for Annotation
• Annotated Bibliography
• Appendix A. Informed Consent, Long Form
• Appendix B. Feedback Sentences
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
  

What People are Saying About This

Nikolaos Kazantzis

Provides the reader with a comprehensive classification and review of client workbooks in the contemporary self-help literature. Professor L'Abate has produced A HELPFUL REVIEW OF EACH WORKBOOK'S CONTENTS, STRUCTURE, SPECIFICITY, GOAL, AND LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION IN CONTENT to guide the clinician in selecting self-help resources as an adjunct, or in some cases, as an alternative to psychotherapy.
—PhD, Assistant Professor and Registered Psychologist (Clinical), School of Psychology, Massey University at Albany, Auckland, New Zealand

Jon Carlson

CLINICIANS NEED TO OWN THIS BOOK and become familiar with its contents. . . . A handy reference guide. . . . Dr. L'Abate provides information on each workbook as well as useful commentary. The brief introduction is VERY HELPFUL in providing the rationale and efficacy of programmed writing.
—PsyD, EdD, Distinguished Professor, Governors State University