Create customized formal treatment plans with over 1,000 professional goal and intervention statementsThe Continuum of Care Treatment Planner offers clinicians a timesaving, evidence-based guide that helps to clarify, simplify, and accelerate the process of planning treatments for adults and adolescents. The authors provide a thorough introduction to treatment planning, along with the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal, customizable tr...

Guide to develop formal treatment plans for third-party payers and state and federal review agenciesPressure from accrediting agencies and other outside parties has increased the need for clinicians to produce effective, high-quality treatment plans; Treatment Planners provide all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the needs of most third-party payers and state and federal review agencies. This second e...

A must-read for psychologists-clinical and academic alike-as well as for political scientists, policy analysts, and others working in the realm of terrorism, political violence, and extremism, this book carefully explores the theories, observations, and approaches of authorities in the field and addresses how and why terrorism has perpetuated for so long.Terrorism is now a regular topic in the news rather than a rare or an unusual occurrence. The possibility of vio...

All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground upMany mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin?Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own pr...

Find satisfaction and financial success with a new career in coachingGetting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching offers a go-to reference designed to help every mental health professional build, manage, and sustain a thriving coaching practice. Packed with hundreds of proven strategies and techniques, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all aspects of the coaching business with step-by-step instructions and real-world illustrations that prepare you for every phase of starting y...

Expert advice for building your private practiceThe "business" of practice as a mental health professional is a skill that is seldom taught in school and requires thoughtful guidance and professional mentorship from those who have already succeeded.Containing the collective wisdom and secrets of many expert practitioners, this helpful resource provides useful insights for setting up, managing, and marketing your practice, including timely advice on being a ...

This timesaving resource features:Treatment plan components for 27 behaviorally based presenting problemsOver 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions-plus space to record your own treatment plan optionsA step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans that meet the requirements of most insurance companies and third-party payorsThe Sexual Abuse Victim and Sexual Offender Treatment Planner provides all the elemen...

From an experienced clinician and a prominent psychotherapy researcher, this book synthesizes the evidence base for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and translates it into practical clinical guidelines. Therapists and students learn how to implement core CBT techniques, why and how they work, and what to do when faced with gaps in scientific knowledge. Vivid case examples illustrate what evidence-based strategies look like in action with real-world clients who may have multiple presentin...

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in...

In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers.At the same time he describes the safeguards we can put in place to prevent ourselve...

Many students and beginning clinicians have relied on this engaging, authoritative text--now revised and expanded--to hit the ground running in real-world clinical practice. Focusing on what works, the authors show how to flexibly draw on multiple theories and techniques to conduct comprehensive assessments, develop collaborative treatment plans, and intervene effectively for frequently encountered clinical concerns. Mental health skills needed by all therapists are interw...

How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today--even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods"--the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths--spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the sa...