Lee Williams, Todd M Edwards, Joellen Patterson, Larry Chamow

Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Showing how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, this indispensable text and practitioner guide is reader friendly, straightforward, and practical. Specific strategies are provided for evaluating a wide range of clinical issues and concerns in adults, children and adolescents, families, and couples. The authors demonstrate ways to use interviewing and other techniques to understand both individual and relationship functioning, develop sound treatment plans, and monitor progress. Handy mnemonics help beginning family therapists remember what to include in assessments, and numerous case examples illustrate what the assessment principles look like in action with diverse clients.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781609180799
• ISBN-10: 1609180798
• Artikelnr.: 31577808

Autorenporträt

Lee Williams, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and does couple therapy with veterans at the VA San Diego Medical Center. Todd M. Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor and Director of the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. JoEllen Patterson, PhD, LMFT, is Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Larry Chamow, PhD, LMFT, is Clinical Professor of Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego and is in full-time private practice at the Pacific Family Institute in Carlsbad, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Assessment 2. Tools for Assessment 3. The Initial
Interview 4. Assessing Issues of Safety 5. Assessing Health and Well-Being
in Adults 6. Assessing for Psychopathology in Adults 7. Assessing Children
and Adolescents 8. Assessing for Psychopathology in Children and
Adolescents 9. Assessing Family Interaction 10. Assessing the
Multigenerational Family through Time 11. Assessing Couples 12. Special
Topics in Couple Assessment 13. From Assessment to Treatment (and Beyond)
Index Appendix. Summary of Assessment Tools, Instruments, and Mnemonics