Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT ─ A Pre-Therapy Workbook

Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT:A Pre-Therapy Workbook presents 12 lessons to guide staff in hospital and community mental health and rehabilitation programs on creating skill-oriented therapy settings when working with people who don’t read well or have trouble with abstract ideas, problem solving, reasoning, attention, and learning. Drawing from the worlds of CBT, current understandings of best practices in psychotherapy, and the emerging clinical specialty of Deaf mental health care, the workbook describes methods for engaging people who are often considered poor candidates for psychotherapy.

Neil S. Glickman, PhD, is the former unit director of the mental health unit for Deaf persons at Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts. He currently works as a psychologist with the Deaf Services division of Advocates in Framingham, Massachusetts, and is faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. He teaches and consults on the subjects of Deaf mental health care and cognitive behavior therapy and pre-therapy.