Clinician's thesaurus 3: The guide for wording psychological reports and other evaluations (Clinician's toolbox) - Softcover

Zuckerman, Edward L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962228141 ISBN 13: 9780962228148

Publisher: Clinician's Toolbox, 1993

Synopsis

This work helps mental health practitioners find the right words to describe their clients quickly and easily. The new edition of this guidebook has been updated and expanded and is fully compatible with DSM-IV. The volume offers a checklist of thousands of words and phrases in an easily accessible format - in effect, the whole language of the mental health professions. Enabling practitioners to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost every clinical situation, this book should make constructing meaningful reports easier. For interviewing the client: this step-by-step guide includes an extensive selection of questions to use in beginning the interview, collection of questions on every topic of concern to the evaluation of mental status, and ordinary language questions to elicit information on difficult-to-evaluate clinical symptoms. Other aspects of the patient's functioning are also included. For report writing efficiency: the book follows the sequence of the classic report, with each chapter corresponding to one of the usual headings, such as: background information; referral reasons; behavioural observations; presentation of self; emotional/affective symptoms and disorders; components of cognition/mental status; personality patterns; activities of daily living; diagnostic statement/impression; summary; recommendations; prognosis; confidentiality notices; and closing statement.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"I have used the Clinician's Electronic Thesaurus for several years. As my practice has changed with the advent of managed care and the increased demands for reports, this software has helped me keep current on appropriate diagnostic terminology. It provides dynamic, clinically correct descriptions and phraseology that I can easily import into a report without it sounding 'canned,' as I have experienced with other programs. I can produce fresh, pertinent, well-written professional reports in less than half the time. I would recommend it wholeheartedly to colleagues in any related discipline, whether they are producing court reports, managed care reports, custody reports or the myriad others that are demanded of busy professionals." Nora Fleming Young, PhD, Independent Counseling Psychologist

"The Clinician's Electronic Thesaurus is the greatest communication assistant I have ever used. The format of this tool is so user-friendly that it is actually inviting. I can always have the most accurate word before me at the press of a button. It could not be easier and my reports are more professional. This software has transformed my writing skills." C. Dale Ackley, PhD, DMin, Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress

About the Author

Edward L. Zuckerman received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and remained there as an adjunct teacher of personality psychology and human sexuality for 14 years. He taught abnormal psychology at Carnegie Mellon University for 9 years and now consults to the Social Security Disability Determination Division. He was in the independent general practice of clinical psychology for more than 15 years and has worked in state hospitals and community mental health centers. He lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania with his wife, a daughter, and their horses, chickens, dogs, cats, geese, and ducks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clinician's Toolbox
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962228141
• ISBN 13: 9780962228148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 286