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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: With the busy and pressured pace of many clinicians in treating clients, along with the increased demands of insurance companies and managed care organizations, the clinician has a need for easy access to effective treatment planning options. The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (2nd ed) provides the necessary assistance for the psychotherapist in developing an effective behaviorally based treatment plan to expediently reduce client behavior symptomatology.Every chapter begins with definitions of clinical problems for which a client may be seeking treatment. This is followed by a list of possible long term goals for addressing the client's behavior. The planner then delineates specific measurable behaviors necessary for problem resolution with numerous therapeutic interventions for assisting the clients in achieving both short and long term objectives. Each chapter discusses a particular client complaint or the reason for entering treatment. The authors include 39 adult behaviorally based problems - a comprehensive list in the treatment of adults - including such problems as depression, anger management, low self-esteem, sexual dysfunction, eating disorders, intimate relationship conflicts, and grief and loss issues. Diagnostic suggestions are given at the end of each chapter to aid the clinician with possible DSM IV diagnosis for the behaviorally based problem. This treatment planner, in a user-friendly workbook format, will be a definite asset for clinicians in the development of timely, specific, client-based treatment planning. If you have not seen this planner (as well as the many others in this author's treatment planning series), be sure to do so. It will contribute significantly to your efficiency in providing care for your clients.
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