
Common Clinical Abbreviations and Symbols
John C. Norcross and Brian A. Zaboski
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 129 lists common clinical abbreviations and symbols that may be encountered during the course of practice. ...

Professional Practice of Clinical Neuropsychology
Greg J. Lamberty and Nathaniel W. Nelson
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Neuropsychology
Chapter 2 provides a description of organizations and events that have been central to promoting the field and developing definitions and guidelines for clinical practice in clinical ...
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If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
The private practice of mental health is a vibrant, thriving, and financially rewarding career path. Yet, many individuals who are considering entering private practice may have heard, or ...
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The Adherence Manual
R. Peter Hobson
in Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy
An Adherence Manual for Brief Psychoanalytic Therapy is presented. This Manual details how principles of treatment are embodied in the to and fro of patient–therapist verbal exchanges. ...
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Responsibilities and Liabilities in Supervision
Carol A. Falender and Edward P. Shafranske
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 141 discusses responsibilities and liabilities in supervision to help supervisors identify responsibilities and implement a competency-based program of supervision, applying ...
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Considerations in Closing a Private Practice
Janet T. Thomas and Steven Walfish
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
The prospect of closing a practice can be daunting. It is a task eventually faced by nearly all psychologists, counselors, family therapists, and social workers who provide psychotherapy, ...
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The Neuropsychological Evaluation Report
Greg J. Lamberty and Nathaniel W. Nelson
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Neuropsychology
Chapter 5 discusses in detail how some of the general guidelines that inform case conceptualization and formulation in the neuropsychological evaluation may be effectively applied in ...
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What Implications do Forms of Vitality Have for Clinical Theory and Practice?
Daniel N. Stern
in Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development
Chapter 7 discusses the implications that forms of vitality have for clinical theory and practice. It includes the roles played by vitality forms in psychotherapy – vitality forms and ...
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Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinican's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
Thomas H. Ollendick and John S. March (eds)
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary guidebook is designed for the mental health practitioner seeking to utilize proven and effective interventions with children and adolescents suffering ...
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Translating Research Into Practice
John C. Norcross, Thomas P. Hogan, Gerald P. Koocher, and Lauren A. Maggio
in Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practices: Behavioral Health and Addictions (2 ed.)
This chapter assists practitioners in translating the research evidence into direct applications to their patients. It reviews the imperative of translational research and the stance of the ...
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Implementing Evidence-Based Principles of Therapeutic Change: A Bidirectional Collaboration between Clinicians and Researchers
Louis G. Castonguay, Michael J. Constantino, and Larry E. Beutler
in Principles of Change: How Psychotherapists Implement Research in Practice
This introductory chapter describes the goals of the book and its structure. It presents the rationale for developing a new list of empirically based principles of change, as well as for ...
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Case Examples and Calls for Action
Donald R. Nicholas
in Psychosocial Care of the Adult Cancer Patient: Evidence-Based Practice in Psycho-Oncology
The human experience of cancer can be emotionally, socially, and spiritually distressing. Patients, families, and loved ones encounter situations never before faced. As medical treatment ...
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Principles of Change: How Psychotherapists Implement Research in Practice
Louis G. Castonguay, Michael J. Constantino, and Larry E. Beutler (eds)
This book aims to create a new venue for evidence-based practice in psychotherapy—a venue that goes beyond the traditional and unidirectional dissemination of research, whereby clinicians ...
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Conceptual, Clinical, and Empirical Perspectives on Principles of Change for Depression
Benjamin Johnson, Dina Vivian, Abraham W. Wolf, Larry E. Beutler, Louis G. Castonguay, and Michael J. Constantino
in Principles of Change: How Psychotherapists Implement Research in Practice
The goal of this chapter is to generate new conceptual, clinical, and empirical perspectives about principles of change that are relevant to the treatment of depression. It provides an ...
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Harvesting the Fruits of a Clinician-Researcher Collaboration and Planting Seeds for New Partnerships
Louis G. Castonguay, Michael J. Constantino, and Larry E. Beutler
in Principles of Change: How Psychotherapists Implement Research in Practice
This concluding chapter summarizes the goals of the book, as well as the results achieved in terms of (a) the identification, by researchers, of empirically based principles of change, (b) ...
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Conceptual, Clinical, and Empirical Perspectives on Principles of Change for Anxiety Disorders
Eva D. Papiasvili, Catherine S. Spayd, Igor Weinberg, Larry E. Beutler, Louis G. Castonguay, and Michael J. Constantino
in Principles of Change: How Psychotherapists Implement Research in Practice
This chapter provides an opportunity for the authors of the previous three chapters on anxiety disorders to present their perspectives about a number of conceptual, clinical, and empirical ...
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Future Directions
Greg J. Lamberty and Nathaniel W. Nelson
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Neuropsychology
Chapter 8 discusses ways that neuropsychology and neuropsychologists can help ensure that they are not marginalized as health care goes through inevitable changes. It also covers how ...
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At This Stage of My Career Paying for Supervision or Consultation Is Just Ridiculous
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
in If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
It is easy to assume that being licensed to practice a mental health profession independently renders one competent to manage effectively every clinical challenge that comes one’s way. ...
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Competence in Intervention
Jairo N. Fuertes, Arnold R. Spokane, and Elizabeth Holloway
in Specialty Competencies in Counseling Psychology
Chapter 6 discusses clinical competence in intervention and how to do so in a way that can be considered as typical of or consistent with the practice of counseling psychology. It also ...
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Assessing Strengths in Clinical Practice
Tayyab Rashid
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 11 outlines methods of assessing strengths in clinical practice, including rationales for assessment, assessment methods using the Values in Action Survey-Inventory of Strengths ...
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