Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This manual, which was originally published in 2002 and has been revised and updated for the current edition, was designed for use by clinicians who work with clients who have substance use and mental health problems co-occurring with anger management problems. In addition, it has been used by individuals for self-paced study outside of a group counseling setting (e.g., by individuals who are incarcerated). The manual describes a 12-week cognitive–behavioral anger management group treatment model. Each of the 12, 90-minute weekly sessions is described in detail with specific instructions for group leaders, tables and exhibits that illustrate the key conceptual components of the treatment, and between-session challenges for group members. The accompanying participant workbook (see Anger Management for Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Clients: Participant Workbook) has been updated to correspond with the updated manual. It should be used in conjunction with this manual to enable group members to better learn, practice, and integrate the treatment strategies presented in the manual.
Anger Management for Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Clients
This manual is designed for mental health practitioners who want to establish a solid foundation of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. Concepts contained in the manual detail the basic steps needed to provide CBT (“Practicing CBT 101”) with the intent that users will feel increasingly comfortable conducting CBT. The manual is not designed for advanced CBT practitioners.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely researched, time-limited psychotherapeutic approach that has been shown to be efficacious across a number of mental and behavioral conditions. CBT involves a structured approach that focuses on the relationships among cognitions (or thoughts), emotions (or feelings), and behaviors. Treatments based on cognitive behavioral theory have been successfully applied to the management of chronic pain, either delivered alone or as a component of an integrated, multimodal, and interdisciplinary pain management program. Evidence suggests that CBT-CP improves functioning and quality of life for a variety of chronic pain conditions.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Worksheets are tools which can be used to help patients organize, examine, and understand their thoughts and thinking patterns.
- Brainstorming List of Pleasant Activities
- CAREFUL: Seven Steps to Problem-Solving Skills
- Change Plan
- Checking My Thoughts
- Decisional Balance
- Emotion Ladder: For Mood Monitoring
- Exposure Hierarchy
- Exposure Hierarchy (Alternate)
- Feeling Thermometer
- Feelings Identification: Where Do I Feel My Emotions In My Body?
- Feelings Word List
- Incomplete Sentence Blanks
- Making New Healthy Thoughts
- Modular CBT Treatment Plan
- Mood-Monitoring Tracking Sheet
- Positive Personal Qualities
- Relapse Prevention Action Plan
- Sentences About Me
- Symptom Monitoring
- Tossing Bad Thoughts Overboard
- Weekly Schedule: Scheduling Pleasant Activities
CETA stands for Common Elements Treatment Approach. It is a cognitive behavioral approach that contains 8 different elements covered in modules. CETA has been shown to help with posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression in people affected by traumatic experiences. Element selection, order of the elements and how many sessions per element are based on the symptoms.
Combination and Multiple Therapies
This manual for Brief Marijuana Dependence Counseling (BMDC) is based on the research protocol used by counselors in Marijuana Treatment Project. The manual provides guidelines for counselors, social workers, and psychologists in both public and private settings who treat adults dependent on marijuana. The 10 weekly one-on-one sessions in the BMDC manual offer examples of how a counselor can help a client understand certain topics, keep his or her determination to change, learn new skills, and access needed community supports.
Brief Counseling for Marijuana Dependence: A Manual for Treating Adults
Psychoeducation
As part of our mission to raise awareness about OCD and related disorders, increase access to effective treatment, help end stigma, and foster a community, the IOCDF provides resources and programs throughout the year for individuals affected by OCD, their families, and mental health professionals, alike.
International OCD Foundation Brochures, Fact Sheets, and Handouts
Announcing a new SEL content pack for Minecraft: Education Edition. This set of lessons and immersive worlds will help students develop social-emotional skills and educators create more inclusive classrooms.
NIMH offers brochures and fact sheets on mental health disorders and related topics for patients and their families, health professionals, and the public. Printed materials can be ordered free of charge.
National Institute of Mental Health Brochures and Fact Sheets
*Also available in the Non-English Resources section
This is NYU's Guide for School Counselors working with families experiencing divorce.
SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocols
This guide presents an overview of case management for substance use disorder treatment providers. It discusses models, program evaluation, managed care issues, referral and service coordination requirements, and clients with special needs.
TIP 27: Comprehensive Case Management for Substance Abuse Treatment
This manual provides guidelines in screening and assessing teens for substance use conditions. It covers confidentiality laws, and screening and assessment in juvenile justice settings. The manual also includes screening and assessment tools.
TIP 31: Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders
This manual introduces counselors and therapists to brief intervention and therapy for mental illness, substance use disorders, or both. It presents practical methods and case scenarios for implementing shorter forms of treatment for a range of populations and issues.
TIP 34: Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse
This TIP shows how SUD treatment counselors can influence positive behavior change by developing a therapeutic relationship that respects and builds on the client’s autonomy. Through motivational enhancement, counselors become partners in the client’s change process. The TIP also describes different motivational interventions counselors can apply to all the stages in the Stages of Change (SOC) model related to substance misuse and recovery from addiction.
TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This guide introduces substance use disorder treatment and family therapy, and features models for integrating the two approaches to therapy. It also discusses cultural competency, considerations for specific populations, policy and program issues, and guidelines for assessing violence.
This guide helps counselors improve their skills in leading group therapy sessions for substance use treatment. The guide discusses types of group therapy, confidentiality, client placement, group development, stages of treatment, how-to tips, training, and supervision.
This guide gives substance use disorder treatment providers information on mental illness, substance use disorders, or both. It discusses terminology, assessment, and treatment strategies and models.
TIP 42: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders
This manual offers guidelines to help counselors and administrators deliver substance use disorder treatment in criminal justice settings. It discusses aspects in providing substance use disorder treatment to people within the criminal justice system, including screening and assessment, and triage and placement in treatment services.
TIP 44: Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System
This guide helps substance use counselors treat clients with symptoms of depression and substance use conditions. Program administrators will learn how to integrate depression treatment into early drug treatment. The guidelines cover screening, assessment, treatment, counseling, cultural competence, and continuing care.
TIP 48: Managing Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Clients During Early Recovery
This manual offers guidelines for working with suicidal adults living with substance use disorders. It covers risk factors and warning signs for suicide, core competencies, and clinical vignettes.
TIP 50: Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment
This guide assists providers in offering treatment to women living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initial use and specific treatment issues and strategies.
TIP 51: Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women
This TIP equips clinicians with practical guidance and tools for treating Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) in adults with histories of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). It does not describe how to treat SUDs or other behavioral health disorders in patients with CNCP; however, it provides readers with information about SUD assessments and referrals for further evaluation.
TIP 54: Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders
This manual offers skills and resources to service providers working with people who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. It outlines types of homelessness and stages of recovery, including substance use screening and supportive treatment.
TIP 55: Behavioral Health Services for People Who Are Homeless
This guide addresses specific treatment needs of adult men living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of substance use among men and specific treatment issues and strategies.
TIP 56: Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men
This manual helps behavioral health professionals understand the impact of trauma on those who experience it. The manual discusses patient assessment, and treatment planning strategies. These strategies support recovery, and building a trauma-informed care workforce.
This guide helps professional care providers and administrators understand the role of culture in the delivery of mental health and substance use services. It describes cultural competence and discusses racial, ethnic, and cultural considerations.
This manual assists clinicians with implementing technology-assisted care. It highlights the importance of using technology-based assessments and interventions in behavioral health treatment services. The manual also discusses how technology reduces barriers to accessing care.
TIP 60: Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioral Health Services
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews the use of the three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and the other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD. Part 4 of this TIP is for addiction treatment professionals and peer recovery support specialists who work with individuals who take an FDA-approved medication for OUD. These providers have direct helping relationships with clients. They don’t prescribe or administer OUD medications, but they interact with healthcare professionals who do. They also help people who take OUD medication access supportive services (e.g., transportation, child care, housing).
Solution Focused Therapy
The SFBT approach to the therapeutic process is unique in at least three ways. First, other approaches to process focus primarily on what happens within the client. For example, when defining “mechanisms of change” in psychotherapy, Nock included only psychological or biological processes and explicitly excluded the communication between the therapist and client. SFBT equates therapeutic process with the therapeutic dialogue, that is, what happens between therapist and client. The change process in SFBT is the therapist’s and client’s co-construction of what is important to the client: his or her goals, related successes, and resources. SFBT training and practice focuses on the details of how this conversational process occurs by attending to the therapist’s and client’s momentby-moment exchanges.
Toolkits
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide” is designed to help health care professionals quickly identify youth at risk for alcohol-related problems. NIAAA developed the Guide and Pocket Guide in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, a team of underage drinking researchers and clinical specialists, and practicing health care professionals.
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioners Guide
School counselors design and deliver school counseling programs that improve student outcomes. “The ASCA National Model: A Framework for School Counseling Programs” outlines the components of a school counseling program that is integral to the school’s academic mission and is created to have a significant positive impact on student achievement, attendance and discipline.The ASCA National Model guides school counselors in the development of school counsel-ing programs that:
- are based on data-informed decision making
- are delivered to all students systematically
- include a developmentally appropriate curriculum focused on the mindsets and behaviors all students need for postsecondary readiness and success
- close achievement and opportunity gaps
- result in improved student achievement, attendance and discipline
This toolkit addresses suicide prevention and responses to suicidal behaviors in three irrevocably interconnected and interdependent areas:
- Promotion of mental and physical health and well-being
- Intervention in a suicidal crisis
- Postvention response to a suicidal death
Schooling at home? Sanford Harmony’s online toolkit supports educators, families, and caregivers with social emotional learning resources for boys and girls of all ages.
When behavior management strategies are utilized they often create exclusion and segregation. Our group looked at inclusive behavior management techniques aimed at creating equitable learning environments that did not isolate or exclude. Because we all work with individualized programs and unique students each strategy that we examined was personalized; from self-in-match reflection logs to video modeling our group is excited to share inclusive behavior management strategies that work.
The reason for publishing this booklet now is to provide you, as principals, educators, and school personnel,with accurate information that will help you respond to a recent upsurge in promotion of efforts to change sexual orientation through therapy and religious ministries. This upsurge has been coupled with a demand that these perspectives on homosexuality be given equal time in schools.
Mental Health America releases a toolkit annually for May, Mental Health Month. This year's toolkit includes: printable handouts, social media and web components, media materials, and a Coronavirus infographic.
NIMH offers brochures and fact sheets on mental health disorders and related topics for patients and their families, health professionals, and the public. Printed materials can be ordered free of charge. Brochures and fact sheets are also offered in digital formats and are available in English and Spanish.
**Also available in the Non-English Resources section.
We’re up to something big that can really help others. Together, we can change the way we approach mental health issues. By introducing Seize the Awkward to your school and encouraging conversations between peers on your campus, you can help. In this toolkit, we’ll share tips on how to help young adults who may be struggling with their mental health, and best practices to have supportive conversations about everyday challenges with them. Help us bring the program to life through tools and resources that both students and administrators can use to Seize the Awkward.
An important part of addressing self-injury is learning more about it. To learn more, simply scroll over “Learn” in our menu bar or click on one of the links provided. We have information for:You can also use these to help others learn about self-injury. On each page, we provide a printable PDF version of each of these sheets.
- Anyone wanting to learn more about self-injury
- Those who self-injure or who have recovered
- Friends of people who self-injure
- Romantic partners of those who self-injure
- Families and Parents
- School Professionals
- Mental Health Professionals
- Medical Professionals
A resource toolkit designed to advance the quality of care for persons with depression and bipolar disorder through the support of clinical screening, assessing, monitoring and education.
Standards for Bipolar Excellence (STABLE) - A Performance Measurement & Quality Improvement Program
This resource is a fill-in-the-blank template for developing a safety plan with a patient at increased risk for a suicide attempt.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center Patient Safety Plan Template