Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice (eBook)

Cases and Practical Applications

Susan W. Gray (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
480 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-04420-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and students. Author Susan W. Gray provides a competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a 'disease' to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their experience with mental illness."
--Alex Gitterma
Zachs Professor and Director of PhD Program

"Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV-TR¯® in a manner that graduate students and clinicians can easily understand and apply, but it also presents a competency-based type of clinical assessment that most effectively integrates the social work practice orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and nurtures client strengths, resilience, and client ability for empowerment."
--Agathi Glezakos, PhD, LCSW
School of Social Work
California State University, Long Beach

A competency-based assessment model integrating
DSM classifications for a complete, strengths-based diagnosis

Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice introduces a unique, competency-based assessment that presents a brief overview of the major mental disorders that practitioners will likely encounter in their work with clients, followed by a series of case studies and practical applications.

This book provides valuable guidance for clinicians to make assessments grounded in client strengths and possibilities for a more therapeutically complete picture of every client's "story."

Organized around selected diagnostic categories from the DSM-IV-TR, this hands-on guide offers a multidimensional look at the many factors that play a role in a client's life. Its holistic approach to the assessment process considers each client's unique experience with mental illness, through a concurrent evaluation of strengths and pathology, in order to set the stage for realistic optimism about the potential for change.

Autor

Susan W. Gray, PhD, EdD, LCSW, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Barry University and was a member of the task force responsible for creating the Advanced Practice in Clinical Social Work Standards for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Rezensionen

"Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice
should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and
students. Author Susan Gray provides a competency-based assessment
model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a "disease"
to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their
experience with mental illness."

--Alex Gitterman, Zachs Professor and Director of Ph.D.
Program University of Connecticut School of Social Work

"Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice
not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV in a manner that
graduate students and clinicians can easily understand and apply,
but it also presents a competency-based type of clinical assessment
that most effectively integrates the social work practice
orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and nurtures client
strengths, resilience, and client ability for empowerment."

--Agathi Glezakos, PhD, LCSW, School of Social Work,
California State University, Long Beach

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abnormal Psychology • Klinische Psychologie • Psychologie • Psychologisches Gutachten • Psychology • Psychopathologie • Psychotherapie u. Beratung • Psychotherapy & Counseling • Social Policy & Welfare • Social Work • Sozialarbeit • Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt
• ISBN-10: 1-118-04420-7 / 1118044207
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-04420-9 / 9781118044209