Main description:

Moving Beyond Assessment: A Practical Guide for Beginning Helping Professionals is a text designed to help beginning professionals from social work, nursing, psychology, counseling, and other related disciplines navigate the early stages of working with clients in a variety of settings. The authors are experienced clinicians, supervisors, and professors who have trained hundreds of graduate students to learn how to assess, intervene, and evaluate their work with
clients. In addition to the direct practice focus of the book, the authors address issues such as self-care, the basics of neurobiology, working with multi-disciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, and supervision. The text has a user-friendly tone and the authors have included numerous practice
vignettes and their own personal and professional experiences to exhibit how the content can be applied to real life settings. Beginning practitioners will find tips, tools, resources, and concrete examples they can use to enhance their work with clients and normalize their experiences in the helping field, while learning how to take care of themselves as professionals. This text is an essential guide for anyone who is seeking to become a helping professional.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. What to know before you even start!

3. Cultural and identity issues in practice

4. How your role will guide what you do

Part I: Beginnings
5. 1st Session

6. Assessment

7. Asking the difficult questions: What to ask and how to respond

8. Assessing safety of client

9. Assessing safety of others in relation to client

Part II: Planning and implementing interventions
10. Evidence-based practice and how to use research in treatment planning

11. Role of Theory in treatment interventions

12. Treatment planning and goal setting

13. The middle phase of treatment

Part III: Ending with Clients
14. Termination

15. Evaluating practice

Part IV: On-going issues for consideration
16. Supervision

17. Technology and social media

18. The brain: Beginning knowledge

19. Closure

20. Appendix

Index