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Conceptual Skills for Mental Health Professionals

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ISBN-10: 0132230453

ISBN-13: 9780132230452

Edition: 2009

Authors: Linda Seligman

List price: $79.00
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This book is designed to help students in the mental health professions, as well as clinicians, to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to develop competence in the conceptual skills of their profession.nbsp; Written by a well-known author who is an educator as well as a practicing clinician, this book teaches the conceptual skills that mental health professionals need to understand their clients; to develop sound ideas about the cause, nature, and purpose of their clients difficulties; and to craft a treatment plan that is likely to be effective.nbsp; Skills are organized into a readily comprehensible structure and are grouped by their primary focus (background, emotions,…    
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Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Establishing the Foundation for Developing Conceptual Skills
Overview of Fundamental and Conceptual Skills
Companion Books on Fundamental and Conceptual Skills
The Beta Format
Organization of This Book
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Understand, Assess, and Address Background: Bloom'sTaxonomy, Context, Multiculturalism, and Interpretation
Clarifying Conceptual Skills Using Bloom's Taxonomy
Interpretation and Insight
Applying Conceptual Skills to Context
Multicultural Context and Competencies
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Understand, Assess, and Address Background: Eliciting Information, Intake Interviews, Transference and Countertransference
Effective Information Gathering
Collecting Background Information/Intake Interviews
Transference and Countertransference
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Make Positive Use of and Modify Emotions: Therapeutic Alliance, Role Induction, Clinician Self-Disclosure, Clinicians' Reactions to Clients
The Therapeutic Alliance
Client Characteristics that Enhance Treatment
Role Induction
Clinician Self-Disclosure and Immediacy
Understanding Clinicians' Own Feelings
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Make Positive Use of and Modify Emotions: Addressing Strong Client Emotions, Variations in Client Readiness for Treatment
Dealing with Strong Negative Client Emotions
Suicidal Ideation
Crisis Intervention
Understanding and Addressing Client Rage, Anger, and Violent Impulses
Variations in Client Readiness for Treatment Stages of Change
Client Reluctance
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Enhance Thoughts: Assessment, Mental Status Examination, Defining Memories, Case Conceptualization
Assessment
Mental Status Examination
Using Tests and Inventories as Part of the Assessment Process
Conceptualizing the Meaning of Defining Memories
Case Conceptualization
Learning Opportunities
Using Conceptual Skills to Facilitate Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
Diagnosis
Treatment Planning
Examples of Treatment Plans
Learning Opportunities
Applying Conceptual Skills to Actions for Positive Change
Generating Solutions
Referral and Collaboration
Structuring Treatment
Writing Progress
Notes