Product Description

The purpose of this workbook is to facilitate student's understanding of the DSM IV and other texts related to the diagnoses of mental disorders. It is designed to enhance the student's ability to assess clients' strengths and to diagnose any emotional difficulties the client may be experiencing. It will provide students with the opportunity to practice their assessment skills in a classroom environment prior to entering the field as a mental health professional. Students will not only learn the various diagnostic categories of the DSM IV but also how to apply these categories to clients they will be seeing in practice. It will aid students in understanding dual diagnoses, symptom formulation, and the overlap between diagnostic categories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23205 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
"I would describe this workbook as a very comprehensive and straightforward coverage of the DSM diagnostic categories that would give students and new practitioners a very good review of the DSM and the opportunity to practice with some very clearly presented cases and case examples."

"I would definitely adopt this in my advanced MSW mental health practice course. Why? Because it fill(s) a gap that both my students and I have identified: How to get more practice into this practice course."

"I would describe it as a useful casebook to illustrate DSM diagnostic categories through detailed case illustrations. Its strengths are: excellent and riveting case examples; excellent integration of assessment tools/measures as part of diagnostic process; good use of internet resources; table of contents is well organized."

About the Author
Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, PhD LMSW-ACP, received her master's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has over 18 years of clinical social work experience with children, adolescents, adults, and families in mental health and health settings. She received her PhD in social work from the University of Texas at Austin.She received the University's Outstanding Dissertation Award in social sciences for her research on families of people with HIV/AIDS. . For the past 8 years, she has taught clinical assessment and diagnosis at the University of Central Florida and the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests have focused on the effectiveness of mental health interventions for children, adults and families and intervention for individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. She is currently an associate professor and the director of the Bachelor of Social Work program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Customer Reviews

Workbook?
I purchased this book for school. The book basically summarizes the DSM-IV-TR. The case examples are interesting but the book provides no feedback on the cases. You are left in the dark with a hope that you balanced strengths and that you came up with the right diagnosis. The cases also lead you to make many assumptions of a clients strengths.

Excellent
The Clinical Assessment Workbook: Balancing Strengths and Differential DiagnosisEven though it is costly, it is a good book for case studies and the practice of skills.