Worksheets Aplenty

Posted at the ehcounseling.com (Christian counseling), a long page of worksheets. Topics include:

• Addiction
• Attachment
• Boundaries
• Communication
• DBT
• DV
• Grief
• Relationships
• Spirituality
• Stress Management

Dig in. Please let me know if anything is particularly good or great.

Yalom Threes

Here, as promised, are a few examples of the three-question worksheets suggested in Irvin Yalom's Inpatient Group Therapy. If you have more and better variations, don't hesitate to send them to me for posting: socialworkprep [at] gmail.com

• Three Job Questions
  
• Three Support System Questions
  
• Important Person/Something Interesting/Gratitude

Three Simple Questions

In his Inpatient Group Therapy, Irvin Yalom has some simple recommendations about group with crisis clients.  They boil down to this:  Keep it simple and keep it structured.  Let clients know up top what you're planning for group, then do it.  

Yalom suggests using a set of three simple, relevant questions.  Have clients write down their answers, then pair off and interview each other.  Clients share with the group what they've learned from their partner.  

I've seen this approach work nicely with dually diagnosed clients.  One favorite, asking about jobs--best past job, worst past job, hoped-for future job.  Usually makes for a lively group.

Depending upon group members general level of functioning, you may consider skipping the clients-interviewing-clients part and just have clients share their answers with the group directly.  But the interviewing offers some good skills practice--listening, remembering, etc.  

Generating sets of three questions is easy enough.  I'll post some examples soon.

My Support System

Linked here, "My Support System - Today and In the Future." Worksheet takes clients through their current and future, hoped-for support system in four areas: Family, Friends, Professionals, Others. Works well in dual diagnosis group--especially with clients with little-to-no current support (provided you normalize having little-to-no support).

Therapist may want to let each group member read answer, then prompt clients re how they might go about getting the wanted support--What are the steps? What are you looking for in a friend, sponsor, psychiatrist...? What are you looking to avoid?

• My Support System (Today and In the Future) (pdf)