Book Description

Clinical work with difficult populations requires the sharpest, most effective set of clinical tools a clinician can acquire. Most importantly, it requires clinical tools that are direct, speaks a therapeutic language, but also includes no nonsense talk that the population can relate to, and understand. These attributes are exactly what Dr. O’Banye’s Group, Individual and Family Clinical Therapy Cards offers both the client and the clinician. Dr. O’Banye’s Group, Individual and Family Clinical Therapy Cards contains 37 cards and a companion manual. The clinical cards direct and assist the client to open up about many difficult topics. The cards contain questions clinicians have difficulty formulating. These questions explore the roots of the clients’ issues, as well as their impact, in the deeper levels of the individual's mind, body and spirit. Cards are typically used by having clients read and address the DIRECTIVE group or individual sessions. This then leads to clinical discussion about the issue prompted by the card. Each issue is related to a particular facet of treatment, and expected to provide the client with insight or coping skills to achieve therapeutic progress, in their area of treatment. After processing the therapeutic prompt, clients can read the TASK, which explains how their DIRECTIVE connected to treatment. A Manual is included with each set. The manual explains the theory and etiology of each Therapy Card topic from a client-centered systems approach. This information is very approachable and can be used to psychoeducate clients about the issues they are experiencing. The manuals also give step-by-step instruction in how to use the Therapy Cards during session, ways to present the cards, and how to integrate the cards into treatment. The manual provides content for each card that can be used by the therapist as follow-up information for clients, making Therapy Cards a truly out-of-the-box product that can be used by an clinician. Clinicians appreciate Therapy Cards because they help establish therapeutic rapport, create positive associations with processing therapeutic issues, and help clients make progress in treatment. At the end, clinicians can list the goal given on each card in the therapy notes for each client, to document the clinical intervention used. Therapy Cards can be used in individual, group, or family settings. Clinical Therapy Cards: Substance Abuse • Addiction Psychoeducation • Biological Mechanisms of Addiction • Stress • Emotions and Addiction • Triggers • Alternatives to Using • Relationships and Addiction • Values