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Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)

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This book is unbeatable when it comes to resources for understanding and creating good solid goals that match up with diagnosis for various services in the mental health field such as counseling, case management, community supports, CAP, and others. The book gives clear examples of broad and specific goals and interventions that would be effective with each. If you are making a treatment plan and want evidence based goals, or you are using person centered planning this book is for you. Everyone in my office bought one after we were introduced to it and it has really helped with getting approval from the state with our plans for community support services. I suggest trying to find it used, although the later editions have more information. I have purchased several for others and the prices have ranged from $15 to $40.

Very good road map to person centered planning. Many of us in the Mental Health field "talk the talk" and this book shows us how to "walk the walk". A must have for anybody working with people, not only in Mental Health or Substance Abuse but for the medical field as well.

I purchased this book to prepare for a job interview at a not-for-profit mental health organization. The organization is attempting to switch to treatment planning using a person-centered approach. The book is not concise. The pertinent information could fill a thin book. In my opinion, the book was overpriced and long-winded. Borrow it from the library instead of purchasing it.

Every point in this book is asserted as being "essential" or "vital" without any support, except for the excessive use of the word "essential." Probably could have been about 100 pages shorter and still just as informataive.