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

Berman, Pearl Susan

ISBN 10: 0761902155 / ISBN 13: 9780761902157

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning: Exercises for Integrating Theory with Clinical Practice
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761902155
• ISBN 13: 9780761902157
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Case conceptualization and treatment planning skills have always been important in providing quality care to clients. These skills are even more vital in today′s managed care market for documenting clients′ need for treatment and support interventions on brief, intermediate or long-term bases.

This book enables readers to design case conceptualizations and treatment plans from diverse theoretical perspectives, including: behavioural; cognitive; process//experiential; family systems; dynamic; and transtheoretical. The author also demonstrates how readers can integrate important domains of human complexity into their clinical work, so that treatment can be tailored to a particular client. These domains include development, se

About the Author

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.