Preparing Deaf And Hearing Persons With Language And Learning Challenges For Cbt

Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT 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 don’t 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. 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 subjects of Deaf mental health care and cognitive behavior therapy and pre-therapy. “Neil Glickman was one of the first to describe ways to work with language and learning challenged deaf people. In his pre-therapy workbook, he provides all staff with specific tools and materials. Glickman’s ability to practice what he preaches, building from simple to complex, using stories as teaching tools, and working from a one-down stance, makes this an eminently usable clinical resource and one that staff in all programs for deaf people should have.” —Patrick J. Brice, PhD, professor of psychology, Gallaudet University “This is not a theoretical textbook. It’s a practical guide breaking down the components necessary to successful treatment into easily understandable and applicable skill sets. Whether you are a psychiatrist or a mental health technician, a peer-support specialist or a counselor, you need this book. This will be a required reading book in my program. I urge every administrator of a program working with deaf people make it so in theirs.” —Steve Hamerdinger, MA, director, office of deaf services, Alabama Department of Mental Health “In this workbook, Neil Glickman’s creativity has simplified the complex task of preparing clients to participate effectively in the therapeutic process. The exercises and strategies presented in this guide are engaging and easy to apply. This valuable pre-therapeutic tool for cognitive behavioral therapy with language and learning challenged deaf clients represents best practices. Mental health, rehabilitation, and education professionals will be thrilled to use it.” —Martha Sheridan, MSW, PhD, professor and school social work coordinator, Gallaudet University Department of Social Work “Neil Glickman is the national leader in mental health care with deaf people and others with language and learning challenges. This book expands on earlier work by teaching twelve foundational pre-therapy lessons clients often need to benefit from skills-based, culturally-affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy. This book is essential reading for ment