When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon-Aide: The Activity Guide For Good Mental Health and Recovery

By Sandy Shores

This book is made up of activities! It's perfect for those who are too busy to read an entire novel for help. The reader will read a brief description of a skill, complete an activity, and then apply it to their life. The reader can do these activities in any order, however, everyone is recomended to complete the fir

• Language: English
• Publisher: a rockin ruby llc
• Release date: Jun 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9780692111437

Sandy Shores

I hold a Certified Social Worker Licence with the State of NJ. I attended Rutgers, The State University of NJ, enrolled in the Masters of Social Work Program. I graduated from Trenton State College earning a Bachelor 's Degree in Psychology. I have over 14 years of work experience helping adolescents and adults.

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When Life Hands You

Lemons,

Make Lemon-aide

The Activity guide for Good

Mental Health and Recovery

A Self-Help Book for everyone

and a Curriculum for Professionals

Sandy Shores BA, CSW

Illustrations by Angela Marie Shores and Charlene Noel Shores

This book is dedicated

to all the people who need assistance

as well as

Sean, my superhero husband,

for his love and support.

Reading this book, I was reminded of my clinical practicum days, when I would find myself scrambling for a good resource book to peruse for a variety of different clinical groups. I might find an interesting activity in one book, while finding nothing relevant in the same book for subsequent topics. After reading Sandy’s brilliant compilation of activities that could be used across clinical disorders, I found myself thinking, Why has this not been offered before? In any event, I found admirable Sandy’s strong determination to help her clients in need through her assembly of resources. I think those reading and using this book will find her collection of activities a benefit to all.

—Cara Church, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist

With this book in your hands, you will be well equipped to begin working with your clients directly and effectively on a wide spectrum of common mental health problems. The author has condensed her years of experience in the field and distilled salient interventions down into their most useful applications. The tools provided in this collection will give those in the field of human services straightforward, easy-to-use exercises that can greatly improve their abilities to help those they serve. These tools are especially useful in today’s short-term therapy-focused environment.

—Michele Pitzer, MSW, LCSW, licensed clinical social worker

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