Synopses & Reviews
This fresh new book will help future mental health professionals develop the competence they need in technical and clinical skills, while learning to successfully integrate both types into their professional practice. Material is arranged by skill type, and organized around the acronym BETAbackground, emotions, thoughts, and actionswhich reflects the range of theorists and therapies, from Freud, Adler, and Jung; through Rogers and Gestalt Therapy; to Emotive Behavior, Cognitive, and Solution-Based Therapy. Both general and specific skills are addressed as they apply to each of the four pillars of the BETA framework, facilitating users' understanding of the broad range of treatment approaches available to clinicians. For future mental health professionals.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-395) and index.
About the Author
Linda Seligman has been a professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, for more than 20 years. She served as co-director of the Doctoral Program in Education, coordinator of the Counseling and Development Program, Associate Chair, and head of the Community Agency Counseling Program. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and Walden University.
Dr. Seligman received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Her research interests include diagnosis and treatment planning, counseling people with cancer and other chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and career counseling. She has written nine books, including Systems, Strategies, and Skills of Counseling and Psychotherapy; Selecting Effective Treatments; Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling; Developmental Career Counseling and Assessment; and Promoting a Fighting Spirit: Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Their Families. She also has written more than 75 professional articles and book chapters. In addition, she has lectured throughout the United States as well as internationally on diagnosis and treatment planning and is a recognized expert on that subject.
Dr. Seligman has extensive clinical experience in a broad range of mental health settings, including drug and alcohol treatment programs, university counseling settings, psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities, and counseling programs for children and adolescents. She currently has a private practice in Fairfax, Virginia.
Dr. Seligman has served as editor of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling and as president of the Virginia Association of Mental Health Counselors. In 1986, her colleagues at George Mason University selected her as a Distinguished Professor, and in 1990, the American Mental Health Counselors Association designated her as Researcher of the Year.
Table of Contents
Preface.
I. TECHNICAL AND CONCEPTUAL SKILLS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. 1. Establishing the Foundation for Skill Development.
II. TECHNICAL SKILLS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. 2. Using Technical Skills to Understand and Address Background.
3. Using Technical Skills to Elicit, Attend to, Reflect, Assess, and Change Emotions.
4. Using Technical Skills to Identify, Assess, and Modify Thoughts.
5. Using Technical Skills to Identify, Assess, and Change Actions and Behaviors.
III. CONCEPTUAL SKILLS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. 6. Using Conceptual Skills to Understand, Assess, and Address Background.
7. Using Conceptual Skills to Make Positive Use of and Modify Emotions.
8. Using Conceptual Skills as Frameworks for Clinicians' Thoughts.
9. Applying Conceptual Skills to Actions for Positive Change.
IV. SOLIDIFYING TECHNICAL AND CONCEPTUAL SKILLS. 10. Reviewing, Integrating, and Reinforcing Learning.
References. Index.