Technical and Conceptual Skills for Mental Health Professionals

Technical and Conceptual Skills for Mental Health Professionals
ISBN-10
0130341460
ISBN-13
9780130341464
Category
Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
Pages
404
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall
Author
Linda Seligman

Description

For courses in counseling skills and techniques in Counseling, Psychology, and Social Work Programs.This fresh new text will help future mental health professionals develop the competence they need in technical and conceptual skills, while learning to successfully integrate the two groups of skills. This book effectively meshes teaching of the traditional technical skills (e.g., open questions, reflection of feeling, reinforcement, modification of cognitions) with the long-neglected conceptual skills (e.g., case formulation, mental status examination, diagnosis, goal setting, treatment planning). Readers will learn to conceptualize their work and to gain a deeper understanding of their clients as well as to select and apply effective interventions. Both general skills such as building a collaborative and therapeutic alliance demonstrating multicultural competence and specific skills such as developing a genogram and conducting an intake interview are presented in this text. Material is arranged by skill type (technical or conceptual) and according to the emphasis of the treatment approaches that make greatest use of those skills. according to the four pillars of the BETA framework (background, emotions, thoughts, actions) developed by the author.

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