Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions

An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice

von Morley D. Glicken

352 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice covers the use of research and critical thinking to assist helping professionals make the most effective choices in treating clients with social and emotional problems. The use of evidence-based practice (EBP) comes at a time when managed care and concerns over health care costs coincide with growing concerns that psychotherapy, case management, and counseling may not be sufficiently effective ways of helping people in social and emotional difficulty. The book provides an easy-to-read, inclusive approach covering EBP with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and terrorism, bereavement, substance abuse, mental illness, and problems experienced by older adults, among others.

• Themen: Medizin Medizinische Spezialgebiete Klinische Psychologie Psychotherapie
• ISBN: 9780761930259
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2004
• Größe: 260 x 183 mm
• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc