Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Children,Adolescent and Families Volume Four

By Liana Lowenstein

Are you looking for creative assessment and treatment techniques that will be effective with your hardest-to-engage children, teens, and families? In Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families, practitioners from around the world share their favorite tools including therapeutic games, art, puppets, and stories.

Inside this creative collection you will find easy-to-use reproducible activities for therapeutic or school settings on essential topics:

• Rapport-Building
• Assessment
• Feelings Expression
• Anger Management
• Social Skills
• Self-Esteem
• Termination
• And more!

The activities can be used in a variety of settings with individuals, groups, or families. Filled with innovative ideas, this book will be invaluable to anyone working with children, adolescents, and families, including therapists, school counselors, social workers, psychologists and teachers.

About the Author

Liana Lowenstein is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Certified Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified TF-CBT specialist in practice in Toronto, Canada since 1988. She is internationally recognized for her innovative work including numerous books on child and family therapy. Liana is frequently invited to give presentations throughout Canada and abroad. She provides clinical supervision to mental health practitioners, runs a play-therapy internship program, and consults to several mental health agencies. She served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy for nine years and is the former Education Chair of the Canadian Play Therapy Certificate Program. She is winner of the Monica Herbert award for outstanding contribution to play therapy in Canada