The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) - Essential Guide for Mental Health Professionals & Therapists | Perfect for Counseling Sessions, Treatment Planning & Clinical Practice

Research suggests that an ever increasing number of practioners are relying on tools such as this to help formulate treatment plans.As a graduate student, what I find useful about this book is that after you study a particular disorder---from the DSM-IV-TR itself, a good psychopathology text (see Davison & Neal's Abnormal Psychology), and the DSM's Diagnostic Criteria handbook, The Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner completes the loop.I bought this book after taking a case studies class where the instructor did an absolutely miserable job in showing us the rhyme and reason behind a good treatment plan. Not satisfied that I knew enough about this critically important piece in the counseling process, I did some research and found this book to be the most highly regarded in this genre.As subsequent classes deal with child and adolescent psychopathology, family psychopathology, etc. etc. I will be getting the treatment plans that correspond with these issues.