Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, Second Edition: The 1-2-3's of Treatment Planning (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) Paperback
Author: Sharon L. Johnson - ISBN: 0123865883 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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A must-have reference for clinicians completing insurance forms or practising in treatment settings!
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Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, Second Edition is a must-have reference for clinicians completing insurance forms, participating in managed care, or practicing in treatment settings requiring formalized goals and treatment objectives. This practical, hands-on handbook outlines treatment goals and objectives for each type of psychopathology as defined by the diagnostic and statistical manual by the American Psychiatric Association, identifies skill-building resources, and provides samples of all major professional forms.
With over 30% new information, this new edition covers a variety of new special assessments including domestic violence, phobias, eating disorders, adult ADHD, and outpatient progress. New skill-building resources focus on surviving holiday blues, improving communication, overcoming shyness, teaching couples to fight "fair", surviving divorce, successful stepfamilies, managing anger, coping with post traumatic stress, and more. Additional professional forms have been added including treatment plans, a brief mental health evaluation, parent's questionnaire, and a contract for providing service for people with no insurance.
In a practical hands-on approach, this handbook:
* Outlines treatment goals and objectives for DSM-IV diagnoses
* Provides outlines for assessing special circumstances
* Offers skill building resources to supplement treatment
* Provides samples for a wide range of business and clinical forms
With over 30% new information, this new edition covers a variety of new special assessments including domestic violence, phobias, eating disorders, adult ADHD, and outpatient progress. New skill-building resources focus on surviving holiday blues, improving communication, overcoming shyness, teaching couples to fight "fair", surviving divorce, successful stepfamilies, managing anger, coping with post traumatic stress, and more. Additional professional forms have been added including treatment plans, a brief mental health evaluation, parent's questionnaire, and a contract for providing service for people with no insurance.
In a practical hands-on approach, this handbook:
* Outlines treatment goals and objectives for DSM-IV diagnoses
* Provides outlines for assessing special circumstances
* Offers skill building resources to supplement treatment
* Provides samples for a wide range of business and clinical forms
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DETAILS
- Series: Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional
- Paperback: 562 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press; 2 edition (September 26, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0123865883
- ISBN-13: 978-0123865885
- Product Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 10.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #81 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Psychotherapy, TA & NLP
- #82 in Books > Textbooks > Social Sciences > Psychology > Clinical Psychology
- #87 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Counseling
REVIEWS
This =is= a terrific text for certification and re-certification preparation... albeit with some caveats. Most of what Johnson has pulled together =is= "good stuff," as far as it goes. But there's a lot that isn't included, and some of what is included is more in the nature of "good ideas" than truly evidence-based treatment.
I'm also forced to agree with some of the one-, two- and three-star-giving reviewers that the book =is= poorly organized, even if it flows fairly well from one topic to the next, but for me, that's less of an issue than some of it's recommendations and many of it's fairly obvious exclusions.
Johnson's training appears to have occured at the apogee of the cognitive-behavioral and family systems eras. Her notions of therapy are essentially behavioristic and/or cognitive, which is fine, but only insofar as what those approaches to therapy can accomplish. Which makes TG2CI a sort of "therapy light" if one is up against a personality-disordered adult molested as a child with the sort of dense defense mechanisms typical in such people. Having worked with quite a few in the past two-plus decades, I'd have been utterly helpless in the face of their mysteries and manipulations if I'd been solely an REBT, CBT, CAT, SIQR or schematherapist.
That said, I admit that third-wave psychodynamic, experiential ("Gestalt-plus"), interpersonal and new-wave neuropsychological approaches tend to defy this sort of organization. And that may be the book's essential fault. Johnson has sought to reduce psychotherapy to a series of outlines.
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