The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner

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Summary: Essential Treatment Planner
Review: As a social worker for the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in New York, I work with children and adolescents who have social and emotional problems that interfere with their ability to adjust to their family situations, friendship groups and the many demands and challenges they face at school. I find the School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner very helpful in identifying the presenting problem and then determining treatment goals, short-term objectives and specific interventions that will assist the client in making necessary behavioral changes to overcome his or her problematic symptoms.
I use many of the suggestions offered in the School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner to formulate my initial diagnosis and treatment strategy and then often add my own interventions as the treatment progresses. This allows me to stay focused upon the specific goals of treatment while responding to the individual needs of the client and his/her unique situation and needs. I love the creativity that this process promotes and believe that it facilitates the client to overcome personal challenges and to perform more successfully within the family, school and community. Every clinician working with school-aged children needs this book in their office.

Amy Schneider, C.S.W., M. S.W