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The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners)

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These 'planners' are a great place to start when designing a treatment plan. They are the equivalent of a 'manual' that refreshes memory, assists with language and format- and gets you past the block. Its weaknesses lie in its treatment methods and assessment paradigm.
The chapters as they delineate conditions and DSMIV categories were well chosen. Academic disorders received appropriate emphasis within the total clinical perspective.
So what's missing? The advances of neuropsychiatry for one. The Ungame and the other published materials are offered in the back for purposes of purchase and review.
The methodologies are limited to play therapy and techniques like the "ungame." The precision, as in, what and how such activities will yield is just too vague and rather dated.
A nonverbal learning disability, for example, will need a qualitatively different play activity than a child with disorder of written expression, or autistic spectrum. No more one size fits all.
The book suffers from a fixation on the psychodynamic approach which we know from research has not effectively met the needs for many disturbed kids. All patients, but more so for children, need successes to undergo change. Brain science has given us more precise tools to assess where those weaknesses lay and therefore a map to gain greater insight into the nature of the condition. Interfamilial discord, then, may be a result of poor communication or an inability to model behaviors- to treat all such dynamics similarly is generally a waste of time. Children have not got the resources to be in such confusing and often haphazard services.
The basic product then can be used for limited support and I see that as a solution in writing treatment plans. I think a good updating would do the trick.

This 4th edition of the Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner has been revised to include Evidence Based Treatment (EBT) Objectives and Interventions. The latest research evidence has been integrated into the content of most of the chapters. Those Objectives and Interventions that go beyond "Best Practice" to being based on replicable reseach results are highlighted with an EBT symbol. Now the reader can be assured that all the latest research has been reviewed and suggestions for treatment based on successful results are noted in those chapters where research evidence exists. Where there is not sufficient research evidence available for a presenting problem, best practice interventions continue to be suggested. As federal funding sources as well as some other third party payers are beginning to insist on treatment based on research evidence, this Planner offers just such Interventions.

Please be reminded that all of our psychotherapy suggestions assume a compassionate relationship of empathy that is crucial for effective treatment. Good psychotherapists realize the critical importance of a therapeutic relationship while delivering research informed treatment.

The Practice Planners series are indispensable tools regularly reviewed by several active psychotherapists in my current and past shared offices of licensed clinicians. Included countless suggestions and recommendations are easily adaptable to support singular to multiple specific client needs while simultaneously fulfilling mandated documentation requirements. The Practice Planners highly accessible quick reference format is ideal for pre-graduate interns to decades long seasoned practitioners.

I work as an MSW in community mental health. I found this book very helpful in the writing of treatment plans!

I have trully enjoyed using this book in my practice. It is true that the objectives dont come as specific and measurable as some would want to, but i think it is better that way because i can adjust them to be appropriate for each client. All u need is creativity. I recommend this book to those who would want to facilitate writing their CCCP's for LA County DMH paperwork. I'm sure it would be good for other types of paperwork.

This book is useful to produce streamlined and accurate treatment planning goals and objectives. Useful when treatment also consists of parenting work/skill building.

This book is a helpful resource for therapists and counselors working with children. Provides practical steps for creating treatment plans. Therapists and counselors looking for creative techniques to use in counseling sessions with children, youth, and families may be interested in the following books:

Essentials of Treatment Planning


Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention, Second Edition: The 1-2-3's of Treatment Planning (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)


Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques


Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families VOLUME TWO: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques


101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques, Vol. 3


The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health)


Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth


More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth


The Parenting Skills Treatment Planner

This book is awesome if you're in an agency setting because agencies use Magellan and other insurances that require evidence-based treatments. This book tells you the problem, approved and unapproved treatments, and gives a list of steps to take and common therapy goals. The treatment plans in the book are based primarily on Behavior Therapy, so this book is really only truly useful in an agency or foundation setting. It does help somewhat in a non-profit organization, and in client-centered counseling, but not nearly as much.

I'm a beginning counselor and this book has been a huge help in figuring out treatment plans and session activities for my clients. It's organized by presenting issue and provides not only wording examples for treatment plans but also specific ideas for what to do in session to meet the treatment goals. I would definitely recommend it!

a great book to give you ideas and giude treatment planning. I've used lots of books in this series and i like them all.