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.

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