The Therapist’s Notebook for Teletherapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative Interventions for Effective Online Therapy

This practical text provides mental health professionals with the tools to deliver effective and engaging teletherapy with children, adolescents, and families.

The Therapist’s Notebook for Teletherapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative Interventions for Effective Online Therapy provides systemic teletherapy activities and interventions for a variety of topics and presenting problems for working with children, adolescents, and families. Fifty chapters are arranged into 12 parts: setup and preparation, materials, self of the therapist, assessment and goals, interventions for use with multiple presenting problems, working with emotions, strengthening attachment, anxiety and trauma, neurodivergence, gender, culture, and green screens. Over 70 leading experts provide step-by-step guidelines on setup, instructions, processing, and suggestions for follow-up for assessments and interventions that are grounded within foundational therapy theories/models and evidence-based practice. This comprehensive guide explores both new intervention strategies and ways to adapt in-person therapy assessments and interventions for telehealth.

This book provides creative inspiration and practical advice for novice and experienced family therapists, clinical social workers, counselors, play therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and practitioners in related fields.

Rebecca A. Cobb, PhD, LMFT, is a clinical professor for Seattle University’s Master of Arts in Couples and Family Therapy program. She also has her own Seattle-based private practice where she provides supervision as an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) approved supervisor and supervision mentoring to AAMFT-approved supervisor candidates. She is the editor of The Therapist’s Notebook for Systemic Teletherapy, has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters, is a former president of the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT), and has won awards from AAMFT, WAMFT, and the National Council on Family Relations. When she isn’t working, she enjoys hot yoga, hosting dinner parties, razor clamming, and spending time with her partner and the small humans that have almost succeeded in making her a morning person.

Christine Borst, PhD, LMFT, is an artist, therapist, and creative entrepreneur. She left her role as an assistant professor in family therapy to pursue a creative career, which includes, but is not limited to, writing and illustrating children’s books and tearing up old magazines to make pretty pictures. Her published books include, What is Coronavirus?, For the Love of Organs: A Quasi-Educational Collection of Poems, Us: An Introduction to Pronouns, and Drawing the Sun, a book about the journey to the authentic self. Additionally, she runs a private coaching practice, where she supports clients in connecting with their wild selves. When she isn’t having fun at work, she is hanging out in Colorado with her husband (the other Dr. Borst), her three wonderful children, and their two dogs and kitten. You can find her on Instagram at @thechristineborst or www.christineborst.com.