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Summary: Completely Revised and Expanded
Review: Every chapter has been completely revised and expanded as well as five new chapters added. First, the Objectives and Interventions of every chapter have been reorganized to improve their logical flow as part of the treatment process. Second, each chapter has been expanded by the addition of dozens of new Objectives and Interventions. Third, the wording of some Objectives and Interventions has been made more precise. Fourth, minor revisions have been made to a few Definition and Goal statements. Finally, in response to reader feedback, five totally new chapters covering ADD-Adult, Borderline Personality, Chronic Pain, Financial Stress, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder have been added to the book. This book is 104 pages longer than the first edition and immeasurably improved!
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Summary: Very focused, great for instruction, keeps things moving.
Review: Excellent for learning how to write treatment plans, as well as for generating more alternatives for interventions. Working with the client to select the most important goals and most compelling interventions helps the client to take a more active approach to the tasks, and increases hope. The intro section teaches how to write a treatment plan, very good for grad students. I don't bill insurance, so instead of DSM-IV diagnosis as the sixth element, I write evaluation benchmarks. Another reviewer feared a cookbooky approach that reduces the human element in counseling/therapy. I disagree; developing and writing a treatment plan with a client helps to clarify what he/she really wants, instructs the client on the therapeutic process, and keeps in mind the desired outcomes. It keeps things moving forward. The transparency of the process keeps the counselor/therapist from being a mysterious expert figure, and empowers the client; some counselors/therapists may not like that, though. Those of us who work in time-limited settings can't afford months of wandering through a mysterious fog. Planning and goal-setting in therapy is part of the human process, not separate from it.
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Summary: Very focused, great for instruction, keeps things moving.
Review: Excellent for learning how to write treatment plans, as well as for generating more alternatives for interventions. Working with the client to select the most important goals and most compelling interventions helps the client to take a more active approach to the tasks, and increases hope. The intro section teaches how to write a treatment plan, very good for grad students. I don't bill insurance, so instead of DSM-IV diagnosis as the sixth element, I write evaluation benchmarks. Another reviewer feared a cookbooky approach that reduces the human element in counseling/therapy. I disagree; developing and writing a treatment plan with a client helps to clarify what he/she really wants, instructs the client on the therapeutic process, and keeps in mind the desired outcomes. It keeps things moving forward. The transparency of the process keeps the counselor/therapist from being a mysterious expert figure, and empowers the client; some counselors/therapists may not like that, though. Those of us who work in time-limited settings can't afford months of wandering through a mysterious fog. Planning and goal-setting in therapy is part of the human process, not separate from it.
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Summary: Every Chapter Completely Revised and Five New Chapters Added
Review: First, the Objectives and Interventions of every chapter have been reorganized to improve their logical flow as part of the treatment process. Second, each chapter has been expanded by the addition of dozens of new Objectives and Interventions. Third, the wording of some Objectives and Interventions has been made more precise. Fourth, minor revisions have been made to a few Definition and Goal statements. Finally, in response to reader feedback, five totally new chapters covering ADD-Adult, Borderline Personality, Chronic Pain, Financial Stress, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder have been added to the book. This book is 104 pages longer than the first edition and immeasurably improved!
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Summary: Thank You.
Review: If you are in the Human Service field. This book is a must. It has helped me so much. I've had this book for over 7 years and if you are learning to write service plans, you will need to get this book and the others as well. Believe me, get this book. It is worth the price and beneficial as well.
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Summary: the best book
Review: If you are in the Human Service field. This book is a must. It has helped me so much. I've had this book for over 7 years and if you are learning to write service plans, you will need to get this book and the others as well. Believe me, get this book. It is worth the price and beneficial as well.
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Summary: Thank You.
Review: Just what I needed, such a time saver now I can actually use my brain power to help not just write about it--Thanks again.
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Summary: A Quick Reference for Busy Clinicians
Review: Psychotherapists often complain about the high cost of doing business with managed care companies--but the real plea behind the complaint is that we want to spend more time with clients and less time with paperwork. This book creates a framework for doing just that. The experienced, competent clinician who finds him- or herself strangely inarticulate when faced with a blank OTR will find a helpful link between theory, technique, and individual needs that will help in carifying goals, determining specific interventions, and measuring success. When I use it with clients, I find the therapeutic alliance is strengthened, problems and obstacles are clarified, and underlying issues often surface in unexpected ways. A great find for busy clinicians.
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Summary: Another great tool for the practioner's tool box.
Review: Research suggests that an ever increasing number of practioners are relying on tools such as this to help formulate treatment plans. As a graduate student, what I find useful about this book is that after you study a particular disorder---from the DSM-IV-TR itself, a good psychopathology text (see Davison & Neal's Abnormal Psychology), and the DSM's Diagnostic Criteria handbook, The Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner completes the loop. I bought this book after taking a case studies class where the instructor did an absolutely miserable job in showing us the rhyme and reason behind a good treatment plan. Not satisfied that I knew enough about this critically important piece in the counseling process, I did some research and found this book to be the most highly regarded in this genre. As subsequent classes deal with child and adolescent psychopathology, family psychopathology, etc. etc. I will be getting the treatment plans that correspond with these issues.
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Summary: Concerned
Review: While I very much agree with the need for treatment planning, I am concerned by this book that therapy is reduced to a checklist, mechanical approach. Relationship and relational variables are underrepresented. Or course, MCO's require this more specified approach, but books (and series) such as the "Complete" Treatment Planner reduce our professional work to an easier-than-it-really-is perspective, and as a result, devalue professional experience as well as client/patient contibutions and collaborations in psychotherapy. While I appreciate the author's attempts to simplify a rather complex undertaking, is is disturbing to see psychotherapy presented almost like auto mechanics. I understand that Jonqsma and Peterson fill a need but the format and construction of this book leave me wondering about the human side of the psychotherapy endeavor.
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