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

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Case conceptualization and treatment planning skills have always been important in providing quality care to clients. These skills are even more vital in todayÆs managed care market, as they can be used to document the need a client has for treatment and support interventions for brief, intermediate, or long- term services. As readers progress through Pearl S. BermanÆs Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning text, they will practice designing case conceptualizations and treatment plans from a diversity of theoretical perspectives, including behavioral, cognitive, process/experimental, family systems, dynamic, and transtheoretical. They will also practice integrating important domains of human complexity such as development, sexual orientation, gender, culture, and violence into their clinical work so that treatment can be individualized to the unique needs of the client. The intent of practicing case conceptualization and treatment planning using diverse theoretical perspectives and domains of human complexity is to encourage scholarly and flexible thinking. The text also encourages readers to identify their own personal style and use it effectively in their professional writing. Professionals and students in psychology, social work, clinical/counseling psychology, human services and nursing will delight in this practical volume to guide them through designing case conceptualizations and treatment planning.

Dr. Pearl Berman is a Full Professor and the Chair of the Psychology Department at Indiana University of PA. She is also a licensed, clinical psychologist. Her longstanding interest in violence prevention has led her to integrate information and skill building relevant to interpersonal violence into all of her teaching at both the undergraduate and doctoral-level.

She is an active member of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence and is the Senior Co-Chair of the Training and Mentoring Action Team. She is also a member of The National Committee to Prevent Elder Abuse, The Academy on Violence and Abuse, and The American Psychological Association. She has been collaborating with the National Child Protection Training Center to expand their Child Advocacy Studies Program to be a Child and Adult Advocacy Studies Program. She is the incoming Pennsylvania administrator for ChildFirst PA a forensic training program for first responders in cases of interpersonal violence. Dr. Berman has published doctoral-level textbooks for individuals in training to be psychologists, counselors, social workers and therapists and has provided her research and clinical workshops nationally and internationally.