Divorce Counseling Homework Planner

Help clients dealing with divorce work through their problems between sessions Divorce Counseling Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to help guide clients through the extreme emotions associated with divorce. This easy-to-use sourcebook features:

• 74 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues in divorce therapy
• A quick-reference format - the interactive assignments are organized around the most typical stages of separation and divorce
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises
• The opportunity for clients to work through issues such as adjusting to the loss, finding support, helping children, redefining relationships, and moving on
• A computer disk that contains all the exercises in a word-processing format - allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

This book/disk resource provides 74 reproducible homework worksheets designed to help clients through the emotions of divorce. Assignments are organized around the typical stages of separation and divorce, and address issues of self-esteem, practical and legal matters, personal values, and constructing new relationships. The assignments can be used with wedded and nonwedded couples going through separation and break up, and with same-sex as well as heterosexual relationships. Although it can be used as a self-help book, it is intended to augment individual therapy. Rich is a practicing clinical social worker. The companion disk contains homework forms in Microsoft Word for Windows version 7.0. This work lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, holds a doctorate in applied behavioral studies and is a clinical social worker. He is also the primary author and Series Editor for Wiley's Healing Journey series.