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The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-18013-6

July 2008

336 pages

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Description

PracticePlanners®

The Bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals

The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, Second Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.

  • New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions

  • Organized around 31 main presenting problems, including employment problems, family conflicts, financial needs, homelessness, intimate relationship conflicts, and social anxiety

  • Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions—plus space to record your own treatment plan options

  • Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem

  • Designed to correspond with The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition

  • Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payorsand accrediting agencies (including CARF, The Joint Commission, COA, and NCQA)

About the Author

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD, is Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners®. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He managed a group private practice for twenty-five years and is now the Executive Director of Life Guidance Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

David J. Berghuis, MA, LLP, is in private practice and has worked in community mental health for more than a decade. He is also coauthor of numerous titles in the PracticePlanners® series.

Timothy J. Bruce, PhD, is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Illinois.