Behavioral Management Guide:Essential Treatment Strategies for the Psychotherapy of Children, Their Parents, and Families

Warren, Muriel Prince

ISBN 10: 0765703548 / ISBN 13: 9780765703545

Editore: Jason Aronson, 2002

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Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; otherwise contents in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, light fading, light shelf wear.

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• Titolo: Behavioral Management Guide:Essential Treatment Strategies for the Psychotherapy of Children, Their Parents, and Families
• Editore: Jason Aronson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0765703548
• ISBN 13: 9780765703545
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: UsedVery Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Now, more than ever, therapists need the time and energy to heal their young clients. Rather than prove on paper that they need healing, we need to single out what is important and look for clear, solution-focused answers in the here and now. We must help our children learn how to live with the fear and uncertainty of today's world, and provide them with the tools to deal with stress. The Behavioral Management Guide is designed to help therapists develop comprehensive treatment plans for the disorders of every child they are working with, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Critical Incident Stress, and Bereavement. For example, it offers therapists guidelines for helping patients avoid hazards when grieving and, using a self-actualization developmental model, rise from the ashes of grief. This book ensures a smooth relationship with behavioral case managers. It will not only help in generating optimal treatment certification and authorization for your clients, but will help in the everyday task of writing chart notes which most practitioners despise, but are required by state law and the regulations of managed care companies. This manual will help the therapist document everything from the first phone call to the final discharge summary. Using this book as a guide, all a practitioner now needs to do for each client is to diagnose the problem, copy the treatment plan from the book, and place it in the client's chart. It's all there: the behavioral symptoms; other diagnostic possibilities; the objectives of treatment and short-term behavioral goals as well as the therapist's interventions to meet them. The plan even includes space to enter a summary of the session with room for your signature, as required, at the bottom of each page. Each diagnosis has been carefully researched and matched with the appropriate interventions for treating children. The Behavioral Management Guide can also be used as a teaching manual to train therapists on what to do in the treatment room, and to help seaso

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Muriel Prince Warren, DSW, ACSW, is a psychotherapist, author, and educator. She is the Executive Director of the Psychoanalytic Center for Communicative Education as well as a senior training and supervising analyst there. She is past president of the International Society for Communicative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, where she has received many awards for excellence.