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Synopsis
This work helps mental health practitioners find the right words to describe their clients quickly and easily. The new edition of this guidebook has been updated and expanded and is fully compatible with DSM-IV. The volume offers a checklist of thousands of words and phrases in an easily accessible format - in effect, the whole language of the mental health professions. Enabling practitioners to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost every clinical situation, this book should make constructing meaningful reports easier. For interviewing the client: this step-by-step guide includes an extensive selection of questions to use in beginning the interview, collection of questions on every topic of concern to the evaluation of mental status, and ordinary language questions to elicit information on difficult-to-evaluate clinical symptoms. Other aspects of the patient's functioning are also included. For report writing efficiency: the book follows the sequence of the classic report, with each chapter corresponding to one of the usual headings, such as: background information; referral reasons; behavioural observations; presentation of self; emotional/affective symptoms and disorders; components of cognition/mental status; personality patterns; activities of daily living; diagnostic statement/impression; summary; recommendations; prognosis; confidentiality notices; and closing statement.
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Review
"The Clinician's Thesaurus is a very readable reference, with practical utility for beginning clinicians. My students valued the easy access to professional nomenclature, and credited the Thesaurus with helping them produce informed, useful reports." --James C. Thompson, Ed.D., University of Louisville, Dept of Educational and Counseling Psychology; Book used for Individual Assessment course "The Clinician's Thesaurus has proven useful in preparing students for internship. Students say they refer to it during internship, finding it helpful as they develop skills in clinical documentation." --Christine Turner, M.S., L.P.C., ATR-BC, NCC, Marylhurst College, Graduate Program in Art Therapy; Book used for: Pre-Internship Seminar "The text is a very handy reference for psychologists in training. It is quite comprehensive. I am using it for two different courses, as an adjunct to standard texts." --Brooke J. Cannon, Ph.D., Marywood College, Scranton, PA; Courses: Introduction to Psych Testing and Introduction to Ind. Psychotherapy; Graduate level "Personal use a clinical supervisor and therapist--it is the best resource!" --William R. Olcott, Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, WI; Course: Assessment and Diagnosis; Undergraduate level, 25 students "Excellent resource book for students in a class that is geared to prepare for practicum in their following semester." --Steve Dubbin, Ph.D., Miami Institute of Psychology; Course: Core Conceptualization Seminar, graduate level "This is my most valuable professional book out of many that I own--it's my clinical companion!" --Ms. Dee Lafitte, BCSW "I've been using the Clinician's Thesaurus since the first one came out. It has been such a fantastic tool that I purchased several for other clinicians. It's good for more than writing reports--one can learn a great deal in one's clinical work. I have recently left a community mental health center where I worked for nine years doing intakes, assessments, and diagnoses. I can't tell you how valuable your book has been to me." --Sister Dorothy Maloney, RSM, DMin "I wish I'd had this book when I was in graduate school. It would have made my life a lot easier, made my reports better, and speeded my development as a clinician." --Paul Loera, Ph.D. "An excellent and valuable reference to make life simpler and easier." --Arthur Freeman, Ed.D.
From the Author
20,000 words from 25,000 reports, functionally organized.
This book (and its related computer program - Windows and Macintosh) are designed to help ease the burden of creating reports from memory. It is simply easier to select the just right word from a printed listing than to try to recall it. In five years this book has sold over 100,000 copies so it must be a highly useful tool.
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