The Couple and Family Clinical Documentation Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Collection of Mental Health Practice Forms, Inventories, Handouts, and Records (PracticePlanners)

All of the forms, inventories, checklists, client handouts, and clinical records essential to building and running a successful practice.

Has the paperwork monster created by today's managed care environment crippled your couple and family practice? This handy sourcebook—the first in this discipline—is the timesaving resource you've been looking for. It provides couple and family therapists with a full arsenal of tools for assessing and treating clients' problems, and managing today's complicated practices.

Providing ready-to-copy blank forms, examples of fully completed forms, and a floppy disk containing all of the blank forms in ready-to-use word-processing files, this invaluable resource will assist you in effectively and efficiently providing services. With The Couple and Family Clinical Documentation Sourcebook you'll spend less time on paperwork and more time with clients.

All of the forms, inventories, checklists, client handouts, clinical records, and guidelines essential to building and running a successful practice

• Ready-to-use blank forms and handouts make it easy to satisfy the paperwork demands of HMOs, insurers, and regulatory agencies
• Completed copies of forms illustrate the exact type of information required
• Clear, concise explanations of the purpose of each form—including when it should be used, with whom, and at what point
• Forms may be copied from the book or customized on the included disk.

TERENCE PATTERSON, EdD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and is board certified in family psychology. Director of Doctoral Training in the Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of San Francisco, he is consulting editor of the American Psychological Association's Bulletin The Family Psychologist and a member of the editorial board of The American Journal of Family Therapy.