Author Description

"This book is intended to serve as a resource and guideline for developing treatment plans and formulating useful and practical clinical methods and strategies for dealing with psychological disorders, conditions and symptoms. The core purpose of writing this resource and guideline book has been: 1) to share a structured guide or framework with clinicians and to a certain extent with interns about development of a treatment plan while taking into account the intensity, immediacy, and stages of the identified mental health conditions. 2) to provide a guide for identifying treatment issues related to a specific mental disorder and establishing treatment goals for a mental health condition or identified problem/issue. 3) to provide a guideline for practitioners in selecting methods of intervention and development of effective strategies addressing specific identified issues related to a particular mental health disorder, and 4) to offer a resource book for young clinicians or interns who face challenges in the application of knowledge to the clinical domain"--Introduction