Exploring Feelings Anxiety Training Manual

A Guide for Group Leaders
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-941765-55-5
Verlag: Future Horizons

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

The aim of the Exploring Feelings Training Manual by Helen McConachie based on Dr. Tony Attwood's Exploring Feelings: Anxiety book, is to guide people wishing to use the Exploring Feelings materials in group settings with young people who have Autism Spectrum Disorder and high anxiety. The Manual is written with the expectation that group leaders will have support from an experienced supervisor. It is for professionals with a background in Cognitive Behavior Therapy who work with young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families. This Manual is intended as an adjunct training resource for group leaders and supervisors who are using Exploring Feelings: Anxiety: Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Manage Anxiety by Tony Attwood.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Exploring Feelings
- I. Background and Introduction to Exploring Feelings
- II. Setting Up a Group
- III. Possible Adaptations to the core Program
- IV. Different Settings For Groups Apendix 1 Final CBT Checklist
- Apendix 2 Social Story Explaining the Exploring Feelings Group Apendix 3 Checklist of items needed to run the Exploring Feelings group Apendix 4 Session 1 Handout - Being Happy
- Apendix 5 Session 2 Handout - What does our body look like when we feel anxious Apendix 6 Session 3 Handout - Social tools to fix the feeling of anxiety
- Apendix 7 Session 4 Handout - Anxious situations Apendix 8 Session 5 Handout - Social Stories
- Apendix 9 Session 6 Handout - Relaxation Scripts; Anxiety and Anger Management

Über Autor(innen)

Helen McConachie is the co-author of Disabled Children and Developing Countries: Clinics in Developmental Medicine and author of Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children: A Review of Research Issues.

Tony Attwood is a practicing clinical psychologist who specialises in the field of Asperger's Syndrome. For the last 25 years he has met and worked with several hundred individuals with this syndrome, ranging widely in age, ability and background.