The Mental Health Clinician's Workbook: Locking in Your Professional Skills

Rich with compelling case material, this hands-on workbook helps mental health practitioners and students build essential skills for clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis. Renowned diagnostician and bestselling author James Morrison (DSM-5 Made Easy and other works) invites the reader to interview and evaluate 26 patients with a wide spectrum of presenting complaints and ultimate diagnoses. Using multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises, clinicians practice the arts of interviewing and making diagnostic decisions. The convenient large-size format facilitates use. Extensive tables in the appendix provide a quick-reference guide to the interviewing techniques, diagnostic principles, and clinical diagnoses discussed in each case.

See also Morrison's DSM-5-TR(R) Made Easy, which explains DSM diagnoses in clear language, illustrated with vivid case vignettes; Diagnosis Made Easier, Second Edition, which offers principles and decision trees for integrating diagnostic information from multiple sources; and The First Interview, Fourth Edition, which presents a framework for conducting thorough, empathic initial evaluations.

Author: James Morrison
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 03/30/2018
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.40h x 8.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781462534845
ISBN10: 1462534848
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
- Medical | Psychiatry | General
- Social Science | Social Work

About the Author
James Morrison, MD, is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. He has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. With his acclaimed practical books--including Diagnosis Made Easier, Second Edition; DSM-5 Made Easy; The First Interview, Fourth Edition; Interviewing Children and Adolescents, Second Edition; The Mental Health Clinician's Workbook; and When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders, Second Edition--Dr. Morrison has guided hundreds of thousands of mental health professionals and students through the complexities of clinical evaluation and diagnosis.