“Therapeutic Games and Guided Imagery illustrates both the need for and application of creative arts therapies with children and adolescents.”
— Christine Charyton, PyscCRITIQUES
THERAPEUTIC GAMES AND GUIDED IMAGERY
Tools for Mental Health and School Professionals Working with Children, Adolescents, and Their Families
Monit Cheung, University of Houston
Therapeutic Games and Guided Imagery is packed with tools for social workers, counselors, school professionals, students, and other helping professionals in the medical and mental health fields. Through the use of interactive exercises, therapists and professionals can help their clients build confidence and develop new perspectives on their interpersonal relationships. The games and guided imagery exercises included are both innovative and empirically tested; they aim to help clients increase the benefits of psychotherapy within a relatively short time.
Professor Cheung has structured the book with tables and a cross-referenced index to facilitate easy and efficient navigation of the many step-by-step activities and exercises. The techniques help clients relax, express their feelings, and enhance their abilities to improve their interpersonal relationships. These exercises not only benefit clients; they promote creativity and flexibility in clinicians.
The games and guided imagery exercises are inventive helping tools that students and practitioners will use as they guide clients along the path to better mental health.
A PowerPoint presentation created by the author is available for download here. The PowerPoint presentation elaborates on the book's activities and provides a valuable supplementary teaching resource.
About the Author
Monit Cheung (MA, MSW, PhD, LCSW) is professor and chair of the Children and Families Concentration, Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. Professor Cheung is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in family counseling, child and adolescent counseling, and incest survivor treatment. Professor Cheung has taught at the graduate level for twenty years; she has always emphasized her experiential and practice-oriented approach to teaching. Author of several books, she is also chair of the Advocacy Committee at the Catholic Charities in Houston and board member for the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation in Hong Kong.
Contents
| Therapeutic Games and Activities |
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| For Children and Adolescents |
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| A1 |
ADHD Relaxation Game |
|
Monit Cheung |
| A2 |
Ask Me |
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Kelli L. Beveridge |
| A3 |
Cartoon-Story Game |
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Alyssa I. Sanders |
| A4 |
Deck of Feelings |
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Mark F. Akerlund |
| A5 |
Don't Bug Me |
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Colleen Knox |
| A6 |
Drawing a Person |
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Monit Cheung |
| A7 |
Feeling Cubes |
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Lori Swan Provence |
| A8 |
Feelings Hangman |
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Michele Ostrowski Taylor |
| A9 |
Floating through Changes |
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Beth Tauber |
| A10 |
My "Family" Home |
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Kay Anderson and Laura G. Saunders |
| A11 |
My Friend's Story |
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Susan E. McCullough |
| A12 |
Operational Anger Release |
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Monit Cheung |
| A13 |
Sandy Feelings |
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Demori Currid Driver |
| A14 |
Somewhere over the Rainbow |
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Kristin Geiss-Curran |
| A15 |
This Is My Friend |
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Wing-Sai Dion Or |
| A16 |
When I Feel . . . |
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Othea G. McCoy-Clinton |
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| For Families and Groups |
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| A17 |
Bag It! |
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Robin Doak Neyrey |
| A18 |
Childhood Memories |
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Monit Cheung |
| A19 |
Chinese Adoption |
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Kit-Ying Anny Ma |
| A20 |
Clay Therapy |
|
Monit Cheung |
| A21 |
Color-Code Chronology |
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Laura G. Saunders |
| A22 |
Colorful Expressions |
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Laila Amir Narsi |
| A23 |
Connections |
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Heather Alden Pope |
| A24 |
Designing a Board Game |
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Monit Cheung |
| A25 |
Facing Divorce Feelings |
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Ed Muldrow |
| A26 |
Feelings Bingo |
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Jolene L. Pothier |
| A27 |
Follow-Me Story |
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Monit Cheung |
| A28 |
Hot Potato Game |
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Sharon Clark Peska |
| A29 |
Incomplete Sentences |
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Monit Cheung |
| A30 |
Journal of Feelings |
|
Monit Cheung |
| A31 |
Me on the Outside and the Inside |
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Molly Grimmer |
| A32 |
Memory Chain |
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Sandra A. Lopez |
| A33 |
Mixed Feelings |
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Monit Cheung |
| A34 |
Name Associations |
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Monit Cheung |
| A35 |
Paper Bombs |
|
Monit Cheung |
| A36 |
Red Bead Success |
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Barbara J. Brandes |
| A37 |
Sand Play |
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Monit Cheung |
| A38 |
Throwing Balls |
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Winnie W. Y. Chan |
| A39 |
Wallpaper Feelings |
|
Monit Cheung |
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| Guided Imagery |
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| For Children and Adolescents |
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| B1 |
A Preparation Journey |
|
Monit Cheung |
| B2 |
Adolescents Who Are Anxious |
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Mark F. Akerlund |
| B3 |
Dealing with Learning Anxiety |
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Sharon Clark Peska and Monit Cheung |
| B4 |
ADHD Kids |
|
Monit Cheung |
| B5 |
Children and Adolescents Exposed to Chronic Violence |
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Tracy A. Middleton |
| B6 |
Medical Procedures |
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Renata Domatti |
| B7 |
Traumatized Children |
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Colleen Knox |
| B8 |
Math Anxiety Is Gone! |
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Patrick Leung |
| B9 |
Parenting for Teenage Fathers |
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Ed Muldrow |
| B10 |
Physical Abuse and Role Reversal |
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Beth Tauber |
| B11 |
Reducing Separation Anxiety |
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Demori Currid Driver |
| B12 |
Test-Anxiety Relief |
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Laura Tolle |
| B13 |
The Other Side of the Rainbow |
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Heather Alden Pope |
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| For Families and Groups |
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| B14 |
Anger Control and Relaxation |
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Michele Ostrowski Taylor |
| B15 |
Building Self-Esteem |
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Amy L. Thompson |
| B16 |
Come with Me into the Field |
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Lori Swan Provence |
| B17 |
Coping with Powerlessness |
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Kristin Geiss-Curran |
| B18 |
Good-bye Balloon |
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Monit Cheung |
| B19 |
Let the Tension Go |
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Yolanda Alvarado |
| B20 |
Magic Carpet Ride |
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Molly Grimmer |
| B21 |
Mental and Physical Relaxation |
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Othea G. McCoy-Clinton |
| B22 |
Muscle-Group Relaxation |
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Monit Cheung |
| B23 |
Ocean Walk |
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Patricia R. Palmer |
| B24 |
Qigong Relaxation |
|
Monit Cheung |
| B25 |
Relaxation on the Beach |
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Winnie W.Y. Chan |
| B26 |
Realizing Your Inner Strength |
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Barbara J. Brandes |
| B27 |
Self-Directed Relaxation |
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Nanette Tashnek |
| B28 |
The Tao of Guided Imagery |
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Patrick Leung |
| B29 |
Word Association |
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Monit Cheung |
| B30 |
Your Place |
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Robin Doak Neyrey |
2006, Paper, 256 Pages, ISBN 978-0-925065-94-0, Price $39.95 |