Getting Help a Consumers Guide to Therapy - Hardcover

Ammer, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557783691 ISBN 13: 9781557783691

Publisher: Paragon House, 1991

Synopsis

Covers such aspects of therapy as determining when therapy is needed, different types available, mental illness in children, how to choose a therapist, self-help and support groups, and how to evaluate treatment

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Reviews

This is a very basic resource book on selecting and obtaining mental health care, aimed at providing a broad scope of options for the layperson. Consequently, it tends to cover topics in a relatively superficial and somewhat misleading way. For example, the authors seem to encourage the prospective client to be an assertive consumer by clarifying a potential provider's academic background and theoretical orientation. The authors thereby minimize the reality of the initial human encounter between the typically eclectic provider and the confused, anxious help-seeker. Because much of the book's content is readily available in other sources, including popular magazines, it is not an essential purchase for libraries.
- Paul Hymowitz, New York Medical Coll., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557783691
• ISBN 13: 9781557783691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406