Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook [Paperback]

Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook presents 12 lessons to guide staff in hospital and community mental health and rehabilitation programs on creating skill-oriented therapy settings when working with people who dont read well or have trouble with abstract ideas, problem solving, reasoning, attention, and learning. Drawing from the worlds of CBT, current understandings of best practices in psychotherapy, and the emerging clinical specialty of Deaf mental health care, the workbook describes methods for engaging people who are often considered poor candidates for psychotherapy.

Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Coping Skills  2. Conflict Resolution Skills  3. Strength-Based Work  4. Empathy  5. The Power of Working One-Down  6. Questions are Better than Answers  7. Promoting Self-Assessment  8. Thoughts and Self-Talk  9. The Connection between Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors  10. Changing Self-Talk  11. Deaf Mental Health Care and Relapse Prevention 1  12. Deaf Mental Health Care and Relapse Prevention 2

Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT presents a clear model that professionals can use to create skill-oriented therapy settings in mental health and rehabilitation programs, hospitals, and day- and residential-treatment facilities.

Neil S. Glickman, PhD, is a former psychologist with Advocates Deaf Services in Framingham, Massachusetts, and a former unit director and psychologist with the Mental Health Unit for Deaf Persons at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts. He is faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. He teaches and consults on the lód