Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning: Exercises for Integrating Theory with Clinical Practice

by Pearl S. Berman

Book Overview

Case conceptualization and treatment planning skills have always been important in providing quality care to clients. These skills are even more vital in today′s managed care market for documenting clients′ need for treatment and support interventions on brief, intermediate or long-term bases.

This book enables readers to design case conceptualizations and treatment plans from diverse theoretical perspectives, including: behavioural; cognitive; process//experiential; family systems; dynamic; and transtheoretical. The author also demonstrates how readers can integrate important domains of human complexity into their clinical work, so that treatment can be tailored to a particular client. These domains include development, se

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761902155
• ISBN13: 9780761902157
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource

I am using this for my Internship I class in graduate school. It is concise, provides good information on how to conceptualize a client's mental health problems through various lens' such as developmental history, gender, interpersonal relationships, etc. It also encourages the counseling student to develop his or her own writing style when it is necessary to write reports or case conceptualizations.