Here is the revised and expanded edition of the indispensable companion for every mental health practitioner. Improved over the first edition by input and feedback from clinicians and program directors, the Psychologists' Desk Reference, Second Edition presents an even larger variety of information required in daily practice in one easy-to-use resource. Covering the entire spectrum of practice issues--from diagnostic codes, practice guidelines, treatment principles, and report checklists, to insight and advice from today's most respected clinicians--this peerless reference gives fingertip access to the entire range of current knowledge. Intended for use by all mental health professionals, the Desk Reference covers assessment and diagnosis, testing and psychometrics, treatment and psychotherapy, ethical and legal issues, practice management and insurance, and professional resources. Chapters have been clearly written by master clinicians and include easy-to-read checklists and tables as well as helpful advice. Filled with information psychologists use everyday, the Psychologists' Desk Reference, Second Edition will be the most important and widely used volume in the library of psychologists, social workers, and counselors everywhere. This new edition features: -Thoroughly revised chapters by the field's leaders. -29 entirely new chapters, now totaling 140. -Sections reorganized to be smaller and more specific, making topics easier to find. -A listing of valuable Internet sites in each chapter. -Increased emphasis on evidence-based practices. A companion website containing graphics, illustrations, tables, primary resources, extensive bibliographies, links to related sites, and much more.
This is a no-nonsense guide to how mental health practitioners can lower the legal risks and avoid the common pitfalls of contemporary practice. Written specifically for nonphysician practitioners, this book explains common forensic issues and standards as they apply to mental health professionals, and it helps clarify risk-benefit questions involved in mental health care delivery.
New DSM-5 content! Whether it's an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that's concise, engaging, and informative. It offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing—in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. It's the psychiatric nursing text that students actually read, understand, and use.
A useful and much-needed resource, this new book encapsulates the suicide literature into readable chunks, offering both practical skills and research based information. The book provides a comprehensive approach to many essential topics related to suicide and yet maintains a practical readability that busy clinicians will appreciate. Well organized chapters explain the relationship of suicide to specific topics, including a thorough discussion of at-risk clients and multiple aspects of working with suicidal clients (history, assessment, crises management, special populations, prevention, and postvention). Through use of this material, helping professionals will gain insights, practical skills, and therapeutic confidence into their work with the suicidal individual. Readers will appreciate the practical tips, lists, resources, and case studies available throughout. Features Include: Use of case examples and studies throughout. A full chapter on assessment provides solid practical information on a skill not often taught to pre-service helpers. Clinicians can find and use Internet and published resources throughout.
This book covers one of the eight core areas of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) curriculum, which relates to professional orientation or identity. It would serve counselors in training who attend schools that are CACREP-accredited or whose curriculum conforms to CACREP guidelines. This book would also aid practicing counselors who are preparing for national certification and/or state licensure as professional counselors. Practice Issues for the Beginning Counselor addresses ten topics of consequence including: What is my professional identity? How is my training different from social workers or family therapists? What is involved in becoming licensed? What is involved in starting a private practice? What do I need to know about ethics and the law? How do I continue to receive clinical supervision? What is involved in counselor advocacy? How do I respond to the client when issues of spirituality arise? How will the Internet affect me in the future? For new and practicing counselors.
Today, practice is more specialised, and licensing regulations, professional standards, and statutes are more complex. The best defence remains competent, ethically conscientious practice -- and now NASW Press offers practitioners a complete practice guide to increasing competence and managing the risk of malpractice. Special Features: 25 sample forms in the book and on disk; 5 sample fact sheets to distribute to clients; Summary considerations at the end of chapters; Special focus on particularly high-risk areas of practice; Numerous case examples and checklists.
Updated to include the new ACA Code of Ethics, this comprehensive volume from two leaing scholars offers an in-depth examination of professional issues in counseling from both an ethical "and "legal point of view. Difficult issues are address in a straightforward manner, and practical, realistic advice is proffered through vignettes that showcae typical situations and dilemmas faced by practicing counselors. Unique in-depth coverage of legal issues as well as ethics. The only text written by both a lawyer and an expert in ethics, all issues in the text are examined from both a legal and an ethical perspective. [See pages 78, 96-108, 116, and 121-122 for a few examples of the book's coverage of the law.] Integrated coverage of the ethical and legal issues involved in working with diverse clients. The text contains a separate multicultural chapter [Chapter 3] as well as integrated coverage of diversity in every chapter. [See the detailed table of contents for the "Diversity Considerations" section in each chapter.] Accompanying video vignettes. An interactive CD-Rom containing twenty video cases that present realistic counseling challenges involving a variety of clients in numerous and varied settings can be ordered as an adjunct to the text. The CD scaffolds users in the analysis of each of these ethcial dilemmas and then provides the user with feedback to their analysis. Gives prospective counselors a bona fide feel for the actual counseling session--facilitates students' reflection and provides practice in ethical decision making.
This comprehensive text introduces the broad range of the discipline of nursing, including theory, the nursing process, and step-by-step procedures. The Fifth Edition maintains its emphasis on both wellness/health and human function as frameworks for nursing practice. The text emphasizes critical thinking by regularly incorporating features that apply to client situations, research-based discussions, clinical scenarios, and ethical-legal considerations. This edition includes new material on Evidence-Based Research and a chapter on Working with Challenging Patients.
Written and edited by an internationally renowned group of experts including 39 new authors, the Third Edition has been extensively revised to provide psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, internists, and residents with the latest developments in research, clinical practice, and diagnostic technology. With the addition of eight new chapters, increased emphasis has been placed on molecular and intracellular aspects of neuropsychiatry and the role of functional imaging in neuropsychiatric disorders. In addition, this text is lavishly illustrated with more than 180 tables and over 200 figures, including many full-color images that will maintain this textbook's standing as the most important source for neuropsychiatry.