Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, Second Edition: The 1-2-3's of Treatment Planning (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)
By:
Sharon L. Johnson
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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
* Outlines treatment goals and objectives for DSM-IV diagnoses
* Outlines for assessing special circumstances
* Offers skill building resources to supplement treatment
* Provides samples for a wide range of business and clinical forms
Publisher: Academic Press
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention - This book has really been a tremendous resource to me in my profession. It provides great insight into the assessment process, and I love the self test, and other exercises. I really love this book so much, that I wish that the binding was so that pages could be more easily removed then placed back (for coping and to utilize during individual session). I would eagerly invest more if provided the opportunity to purchase this book in a removable notebook style fastening.
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Great for Cert or Re-Cert, but "Therapy Light" - 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. And for the patient with two or three overlapping Axis II compilations, let alone three or four in borderline organization, a series of outlines (even like those provided by the estimable Teddy Millon, Seth Grossman, Aaron Beck and Arthur Freeman) is wholly inadequate.
Those considerations aside, this book =does= belong on your bookshelf. No other text I know of has as much "procedural" material between its covers, let alone all the assessment forms one can lay down on top of copier. At twice the price, it would be a bargin in that respect.
Just don't buy it thinking that "all" the answers -- or even useful synopses thereof -- are between its covers.
Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Great resource - In a short time it has been an invaluable resource. I took a look at it in a bookstore and decided the wide range of topics, exercises, etc. would be beneficial and I have not been disappointed.
Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Lots of info but very disorganized - I was surprised at how disorganized this book is. There are lots of typos and no discernible structure. There are some good tips and ideas but many of them, without context, don't make a lot of sense.
I think this is good when I am stuck writing a treatment plan and I know the kinds of things I want to start doing but I am having trouble putting words to it.
However, if this book was given some structure and contextualized the tips, it would be much, MUCH more useful.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Textbook for teaching counseling skills - This is one of the best books I have used to teach psychotherapy skills to Master's level counselors. There is a wealth of information about psychopathology, counseling theories and of course, specific interventions for many, many disorders, much more than in the DSM. It is a resource for students to use throughout their careers.
Dr. Ellyn Herb, Ph.D.
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