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At a time when the mental health difficulties/disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore of many practitioners' patient rosters, naming and treating those problems is still too often handled as an art as much as a science. Inconsistent practices based on clinical experience and intuition rather than hard scientific evidence of efficacy have for too long been the basis of much treatment. Evidence-based practices help to alleviate some of the confusion, allowing the practitioner to develop quality practice guidelines that can be applied to the client, identify appropriate literature that ca

Evidence-based psychotherapy. --- Older people with mental disabilities --- Psychotherapy for older people. --- Counseling of. --- Geriatric psychotherapy --- Psychotherapy for the aged --- Geriatric psychiatry --- Older people --- Aged people with mental disabilities --- Mentally handicapped aged --- Older people with disabilities --- People with mental disabilities --- EBT (Psychotherapy) --- Evidence-based therapies (Psychotherapy) --- Psychotherapy --- Diseases --- Treatment --- Decision-making

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Covers the use of research & critical thinking to assist helping professionals make the most effective choices in treating clients with social & emotional problems.

Mental health counseling. --- Psychiatric social work. --- Evidence-based medicine. --- EBM (Medicine) --- Evidence-based healthcare --- Clinical medicine --- Systematic reviews (Medical research) --- Social service, Psychiatric --- Social work with the mentally ill --- Social service --- Counseling, Mental health --- Health counseling --- Mental health services --- Psychotherapy --- Decision making

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At a time when increasing numbers of children are being treated for emotional problems, naming and treating those problems remains more of an art than a science often leaving children and their parents to navigate a confusing path. One reason for this uncertainty is that we have few objective ways of assessing a child's emotional difficulties other than judgments based on interviews and checklists of symptoms. Unlike most adults, however, young children are often unable or unwilling to talk about their symptoms, leaving mental health professionals to rely on observation and information from parents and teachers that may be incorrect or biased. Furthermore, children develop so quickly that what looks like attention deficit disorder in the fall may look like anxiety or nothing at all in the summer. Although the mental health field has made great strides in helping children manage mental illness, particularly moderate conditions, the system of diagnosis is still '200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine, ' according Dr. E. Jane Costello, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University. Dr. Costello and other experts believe that the search for a diagnosis is often a process of trial and error that may end with serious errors in diagnosis and treatment. According to government surveys at least six million American children have difficulties that are diagnosed as serious mental disorders, a number that has tripled since the early 1990s even though one of the largest continuing surveys of mental illness in children, tracking 4,500 children ages 9 to 13, found no cases of full-blown bi-polar disorder and only a few children with the mild flights of excessive energy that could be considered nascent bipolar disorder. Moreover, the symptoms diagnosed as serious emotional problems in children often bear little resemblance to those in adults. Instead, children?s moods often flip on and off throughout the day, and their upswings often look more like extreme agitation than bi-polar disorder. The confusion over accurate diagnosis and treatment leaves parents with very difficult children virtually alone and confused by the conflicting signals given by doctors and other mental health professionals. If parents are lucky, they may find a specialist who listens carefully and has the sensitivity to understand their child and their family. In dozens of interviews conducted by the author, however, parents of troubled children said that they had searched for months and sometimes years to find the right therapist. The advantage of EBP, according to Hines, is that it allows the practitioner to develop quality practice guidelines that can be applied to the client, identify appropriate literature that can be shared with the client, communicate with other professionals from a knowledge-guided frame of reference and, continue a process of self-learning that results in the best possible treatment for clients. focusing on the most current research and best evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adolescents with a range of emotional problems including, but not limited to: ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Aspirgers Syndrome; substance abuse; social isolation; school related problems including underachievement; sexual acting out; Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders; Childhood Schizophrenia; Gender Issues; Prolonged Grief; gang involvement; and a number of other problems experienced by children and adolescents. Because concrete research evidence is often not used as the basis for practice with children and adolescents, and the next edition in the DSM series, which promises more information about children isn't due until 2011, this book provides a timely guide for practitioners, students, mental health professionals, and parents to a research-oriented approach for understanding and helping children experiencing emotional difficulties and their families. particularly in populations where there has been a dramatic increase in troubled youth such as autism and substance abuse. The problems discussed in the book range from more common problems such as underachievement and parents who fail to supervise or provide effective role models to much more serious problems including Bi-Polar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and children traumatized by sexual abuse, violence, and neglect. *Fully covers assessment, diagnosis & treatment of children and adolescents, focusing on evidence-based practices *Offers detailed how-to explanation of practical evidence-based treatment techniques *Cites numerous case studies and provides integrative questions at the end of each chapter *Material related to diversity (including race, ethnicity, gender and social class) integrated into each chapter. The author, a professional social worker and professor at the Arizona State University West Department of Social Work, expresses his concern for the increasing number of children being diagnosed and treated for emotional problems. "The unsettling thought of misdiagnosing children who need help but are not being served because of racial and gender issues, and treatment of large number of children who are, in reality, responding in normal ways to maturational and social changes has begun to capture a great deal of attention in the popular and professional literature."--Page [3]. He proposes an evidence-based practice approach regarding assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with social and emotional problems "including, but not limited to: ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Asperger's Syndrome; lonelines and social isolation; school related problems; gender issues and prolonged grief. The psychosocial interventions discussed in the book provide practitioners and educators with a range of effective treatments that serve as an alternative to the use of unproven medications with unknown but potentially harmful side effects."--Page 4 of cover.

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Resilience is a human trait that is key to understanding how people successfully cope with crisis and trauma. This book explains the inner self-healing processes of resilient people and helps people training in the helping professions to learn to use these processes in working with their clients.

Resilience (Personality trait)

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In the current economy, companies are expected to turn on a dime in response to changing market needs to stay vibrant. What that means is that companies are constantly reorganizing. Employees are living in a constant state of change. This dynamic in the workplace has affected worker satisfaction, morale, and burnout. This is the first treatment manual to focus on treating job-related issues, whether it's conflict in the workplace, stress, burnout, performance, and more. Divided into two parts, Part One sets the stage with a discussion of the economic climate and how it impacts businesses, how business reacts to it, and how the new business climate affects employees. Part Two lays out the most current research on effectively treating work-related client issues. Individual, group, and organizational interventions are included, along with case examples, practical treatment exercises, checklists, and outlines for treatment. Summarizes how the changing workplace impacts workers Covers effective ways of treating and preventing worker problems Includes case examples of treating common workplace depression, accidents, substance abuse, violence, stress, illness, conflict, and performance Discusses individual, group, and organizational interventions Provides online exercises, checklists, evaluation formats, and outlines for treatment Integrates issues of diversity including race, ethnicity, age, and gender.

Job satisfaction --- Employee retention --- Burn out (Psychology) --- Job stress. --- Job satisfaction. --- Employee retention. --- Burnout (Psychology) --- Job stress --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Stress (Psychology) --- Retention of employees --- Personnel management --- Occupational satisfaction --- Work satisfaction --- Quality of work life --- Satisfaction --- Job enrichment