Selecting Effective Treatments
A Comprehensive, Systematic Guide to Treating Mental Disorders
Lourie W. Reichenberg, Linda Seligman
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Selecting Effective Treatments
A Comprehensive, Systematic Guide to Treating Mental Disorders
Lourie W. Reichenberg, Linda Seligman
About This Book
The bestselling treatment guide, updated to reflect changes to the DSM-5
Selecting Effective Treatments provides a comprehensive resource for clinicians seeking to understand the symptoms and dynamics of mental disorders, in order to provide a range of treatment options based on empirically effective approaches. This new fifth edition has been updated to align with the latest changes to the DSM-5, and covers the latest research to help you draw upon your own therapeutic preferences while constructing an evidence-based treatment plan. Organized for quick navigation, each disorder is detailed following the same format that covers a description, characteristics, assessment tools, effective treatment options, and prognosis, including the type of therapy that is likely to be most successful treating each specific disorder. Updated case studies, treatments, and references clarify the latest DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, and the concise, jargon-free style makes this resource valuable to practitioners, students, and lay people alike.
Planning treatment can be the most complicated part of a clinician's job. Mental disorders can be complex, and keeping up with the latest findings and treatment options can itself be a full time job. Selecting Effective Treatments helps simplify and organize the treatment planning process by putting critical information and useful planning strategies at your fingertips
- Get up to speed on the latest changes to the DSM-5
- Conduct evidence-based treatment suited to your therapeutic style
- Construct Client Maps to flesh out comprehensive treatment plans
- Utilize assessment methods that reflect the changes to the DSM-5 multiaxial system
Effective treatment begins with strategic planning, and it's important to match the intervention to your own strengths, preferences, and style as much as to the client's needs. Selecting Effective Treatments gives you the latest information and crucial background you need to provide the evidence-backed interventions your clients deserve.
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Chapter 1
Introduction to Effective Treatment Planning
Why Is Diagnosis and Assessment Important?
Case Study 1.1
Case Study 1.2
Case Study 1.3
An Integrated Model for Treatment Planning
- Diagnosis
- Objectives of treatment
- Assessmentâtools to help clarify assessment may include structured clinical interviews, inventories, scales, neurological tests, or may be as simple as symptom check lists and self-reports
- Clinician characteristics
- Location of treatment
- Interventions to be used
- Emphasis of treatmentâfor example level of support needed, level of directiveness by the therapist, whether focus is cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or a combination of the three
- Numbersâwho should participate in treatment? Is the most effective treatment individual therapy? Family therapy? Group?
- Timingâfrequency, pace, and duration of treatment
- Medications needed, if any
- Adjunct servicesâcommunity services, support groups, alternative treatments
- Prognosis