Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals
Richard W. Sears
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Description for Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals
Hardcover. This comprehensive, user-friendly text builds on established research and the authors' vast professional experience to address issues related to doing consultation with diverse clientele in varied settings. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 187 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1318.
Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service.
Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service.
Filled with numerous case examples and checklists, Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals contains a wealth of information on this important area of practice. It provides a comprehensive source for working with a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, discussing both traditional mental health consultation ... Read more
The guide is divided into four parts:
- Individual-Level Consulting Issues takes up individual career assessment and counseling, along with how organizational contexts affect individual jobs; leadership, management, and supervision; executive assessment, selection, interviewing, and development; and executive coaching.
- Consulting to Small Systems discusses working with teams and groups; planning and conducting training and teambuilding; diversity in the workplace and in consultation.
- Consulting to Large Systems covers how to work with large organizations, including organizational structure, terms, culture, and concepts, as well as processes such as change and resistance; how to assess organizations, and the characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional workplaces; and issues involved in organizational intervention.
- Special Consulting Topics include issues such as the practical aspects of running a consulting practice; the skills required for successful clinical consultation; consultation services for special populations; and crisis consultation, including critical incident stress management, psychological first aid, disaster recovery, media communication, and school crisis response.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471705109
SKU
V9780471705109
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99-1
About Richard W. Sears
RICHARD SEARS, PsYD, MBA, Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio. JOHN RUDISILL, PHD, ABPP, Dean,Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio. CARRIE MASON-SEARS, PHD, is a psychologist in private practice and on staff at RHC-CITE Services, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Reviews for Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals
"It is hard to imagine a more complete introduction to the field of consulting." (PsycCRITIQUES, 6/28/2006)