Mindfulness and Acceptance for Depression

At the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore, check out the Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression, by Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson.  It's a "third wave" approach to tackling depression.  Instead of challenging and replacing negative thoughts as in o.g. CBT, clients are encouraged to acknowledge and accept their moods.  The concept being, depression and anxiety (covered in another workbook) are along for the ride, but you're in charge, you don't have to let them take the wheel.

Help for Helpers

From TW sister sites, help for helping professionals:

Building a private practice? Try Where the Client Is, an online blogzine about launching and growing a private practice. Promotion and marketing tips, interviews with experienced clinicians, etc. Also, offers inexpensive web design for therapists.

If you're working toward the social work licensing exam, look at Social Work Test Prep. Lots of useful stuff, including links to free practice exams around the web, flash cards, exam tutoring, and more.

And, for everyone, if you're in L.A. and thinking about therapy, contact Will Baum, LCSW. After a free 15-minute consultation you'll either have found your therapist or gotten a referral to one that's right for you.

Enjoy.

Big CBT Worksheet Page

From getselfhelp.co.uk, bunches of CBT worksheets. Lots of good stuff, including:

• Anxiety, Depression, Assertiveness, Relaxation, Self-Esteem, Bipolar Disorder, Pain

Just to name a few.

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.

Bipolar Symptom Worksheets

Respotlighting the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Australia. Lots of amazing stuff posted there, including these resources for bipolar disorder:

• Keeping Your Balance. A free eight-module workbook.

Or--quicker--two single-page worksheets:

• Bipolar Symptom Record
• Week-long Symptom Monitoring Worksheet

New Blog: Where the Client Is

Brought to you by your loyal Therapy Worksheets blogger, a site dedicated to putting together and growing a private practice: Where the Client Is. Includes posts about marketing, office space, business cards, clinician interviews, etc. Potentially helpful stuff. Come on over.

OCD and Body Dysmorphia Handouts and Questionnaires

A reader recommends this collection of Handouts and Questionnaires for OCD and Body Dysmorphic Disorder from goodmedicine.org.uk. Looks good.