Client Assessment Paperback / softback
Edited by Stephen Palmer, Gladeana McMahon
Part of the Professional Skills for Counsellors Series series
Paperback / softback
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`This chunky little book is packed with interesting approaches to the currently fashionable area of client assessment....
This is a book for any counsellor or counsellor trainee′s shelf, a necessary reference for the sound professional′ - Counselling News`The comprehensive series of essays... is a timely contribution.... This book is about being professional and effective... a valuable multimodal life inventory for use with clients is provided′ - Counselling, The Journal of The British Association for CounsellingWhat information will help you assess the therapeutic needs of a client?
Could you identify a suicidal client? How can you tell whether or not you are working with appropriate clients?
Answering these and other questions, this book sheds light on a crucial, but often neglected, area of counselling.
The authors provide clear guidelines, backed up by practice points, which clarify the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of clients. The book adopts a broad approach, transcending specific counselling theories and covering the main issues involved at key stages in the client/counsellor relationship - from the initial contact, through monitoring of the therapeutic programme, to ending the counselling process.
Areas examined include: assessing the best type of therapy for each client; identifying the client′s therapeutic goals; history taking; referral; and evaluating goal achievement. Gladeanna McMahon is presenter of the ITV programme Dial A Mum.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:18/03/1997
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- ISBN:9780803975033
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:18/03/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803975033