Behavioral Management Guide: Essential Treatment Strategies for the Psychotherapy of Children and Their Families : A Special Treatment Plan for Critical Incident Stress management - Hardcover

Warren, Muriel Prince

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765703548 ISBN 13: 9780765703545

Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The Behavioral Management Guide is designed to help therapists develop comprehensive treatment plans for the disorders of every child they are working with, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Critical Incident Stress, and Bereavement. For example, it offers therapists guidelines for helping patients avoid hazards when grieving and, using a self-actualization developmental model, rise from the ashes of grief.
This book ensures a smooth relationship with behavioral case managers. It will not only help in generating optimal treatment certification and authorization for your clients, but will help in the everyday task of writing chart notes which most practitioners despise, but are required by state law and the regulations of managed care companies.
This manual will help the therapist document everything from the first phone call to the final discharge summary. Using this book as a guide, all a practitioner now needs to do for each client is to diagnose the problem, copy the treatment plan from the book, and place it in the client's chart. It's all there: the behavioral symptoms; other diagnostic possibilities; the objectives of treatment and short-term behavioral goals as well as the therapist's interventions to meet them. The plan even includes space to enter a summary of the session with room for your signature, as required, at the bottom of each page.
Each diagnosis has been carefully researched and matched with the appropriate interventions for treating children. The Behavioral Management Guide can also be used as a teaching manual to train therapists on what to do in the treatment room, and to help seasoned therapists develop fresh, creative interventions that can and must be used in this new world of critical incidence and increased stress, from which both clients and therapists suffer. In addition, the book includes a description of leading behavioral techniques, and homework assignments, bibliotherapies both for parents and children, therapeutic games, a listing of self-help gro

About this title

About the Author

Muriel Prince Warren, DSW, ACSW, is a psychotherapist, author, and educator. She is the Executive Director of the Psychoanalytic Center for Communicative Education as well as a senior training and supervising analyst there. She is past president of the International Society for Communicative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she has received many awards for excellence.

Review

A brilliant and compassionate therapist describes effective therapeutic strategies for each diagnostic classification with a clarity that will thrill the novice and seasoned therapist alike. A gem! This book can also be used as an excellent text for teaching child psychotherapy. (J. Matthew Pirone, Ph.D., Rockland Community College)

Behavioral Management Guide helps clinicians translate clinical language into 'managed care' language, an important facet of obtaining the time needed for high-quality patient care within the constraints of managed care. The book is well-written and well-organized, with case examples, an expansive bibliography, and a thorough list of clinical resources. I recommend it wholeheartedly. (Alexandra N. Helper, M.D., adult and child psychiatrist)

This rich compendium of tools, techniques, and professional wisdom should be on every therapist's desk! It is a complete manual for providing appropriate psychotherapy in virtually every diagnostic category. Everything necessary to formulate a diagnosis and carry out a treatment plan with behavioral goaas is covered in this 'must-have' text. Several treatment aids include treatment session outlines, homework assignments, bibliotherapy, and tools for creative work with children. Dr. Warren is to be commended for this invaluable resource. (Joanne T. Jozefowski, Ph.D., R.N., author, The Phoenix Phenomenon: Rising from the Ashes of Grief)

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0765703548
• ISBN 13: 9780765703545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 587