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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826256203321

Autore

Gray Susan W (Susan Walker)

Titolo

Competency-based assessments in mental health practice : cases and practical applications / / Susan W. Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2011

ISBN

1-118-04422-3

1-283-02732-1

9786613027320

1-118-04420-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (482 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/075

Soggetti

Psychology, Pathological

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice: Cases and Practical Applications; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; 1: An Introduction to the Competency-Based Assessment; 2: Formulating the Competency-Based Assessment: Some Basics; 3: Disorders in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence; 4: The Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia; 5: The Substance-Related Disorders; 6: Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders; 7: The Mood Disorders; 8: Anxiety Disorders; 9: Somatoform, Factitious, and Malingering Disorders; 10: The Dissociative Disorders; 11: Eating Disorders

12: The Personality DisordersReferences; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

""Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and students. Author Susan W. Gray provides a competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a 'disease' to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their experience with mental illness.""-Alex GittermaZachs Professor and Director of PhD Program ""Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice not only describes the rather cumbersome