Moving Beyond Assessment: A practical guide for beginning helping professionals

Moving Beyond Assessment: A Practical Guide for Beginning Helping Professionals is an essential guide for anyone who is seeking to become a helping professional. It uses a user-friendly tone and is filled with practice vignettes that demonstrate how content can be applied to real life settings.

Melissa D. Grady, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor at The Catholic University of America's National Catholic School of Social Service. At CUA she conducts research on sexual violence prevention and evidence-based practice and teaches courses on clinical theory, social work practice, human development, and research. Dr. Grady has been in active clinical practice for almost 20 years.

Eileen A. Dombo, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America's National Catholic School of Social Service, where she is also Chair of the BSW Program. She is a clinical social worker with almost 20 years' experience working with trauma survivors, and her research and writing focuses on trauma and current issues in clinical practice, as well as workforce health and vicarious trauma. Dr. Dombo teaches clinical practice courses to graduate students and directs the senior thesis course for undergraduates.