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Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice: Cases and Practical Applications [Kindle Edition]

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Author: Susan W. Gray
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"Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and students. Author Susan W. Gray provides a competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a 'disease' to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their experience with mental illness."
—Alex Gitterma
Zachs Professor and Director of PhD Program
<bUniversity of Connecticut School of Social Work

"Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV-TR® in a manner that graduate students and clinicians can easily understand and apply, but it also presents a competency-based type of clinical assessment that most effectively integrates the social work practice orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and nurtures client strengths, resilience, and client ability for empowerment."
—Agathi Glezakos, PhD, LCSW
School of Social Work
California State University, Long Beach

A competency-based assessment model integrating
DSM classifications for a complete, strengths-based diagnosis

Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice introduces a unique, competency-based assessment that presents a brief overview of the major mental disorders that practitioners will likely encounter in their work with clients, followed by a series of case studies and practical applications.

This book provides valuable guidance for clinicians to make assessments grounded in client strengths and possibilities for a more therapeutically complete picture of every client's "story."

Organized around selected diagnostic categories from the DSM-IV-TR, this hands-on guide offers a multidimensional look at the many factors that play a role in a client's life. Its holistic approach to the assessment process considers each client's unique experience with mental illness, through a concurrent evaluation of strengths and pathology, in order to set the stage for realistic optimism about the potential for change.

  • File Size: 4733 KB
  • Print Length: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 25, 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004QGYQ18
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  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,524 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice: Cases and Practical Applications

Great book that is easy to follow and provides very important information for anyone that is completing clinical assessments and diagnosing. Pulls together a strength-based, empowerment approach with the DSM.
By Rebecca N.
The text was disappointing. The title promised extensive information regarding the emerging area of competency (strengths)- based assessment. What the book mostly consists of is a general overview of DSM diagnostics. Not only is that topic well-covered in many other books - including the DSM - the concept of competency-based assessment should actually lead the reader in a different direction than disorder-based assessment. Only the introduction described the strengths-based understanding of clients and it did so in a rather vague and perfunctory way. The clinical vignettes were good - but again, focused primarily on assessing disorder oriented deficits, not strengths. The mental health field still needs a definitive text on this important new area - this isn't it.
By Paul Jenkins
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