Clinician's Thesaurus

This work helps mental health practitioners find the right words to describe their clients quickly and easily. The new edition of this guidebook has been updated and expanded and is fully compatible with DSM-IV. The volume offers a checklist of thousands of words and phrases in an easily accessible format - in effect, the whole language of the mental health professions. Enabling practitioners to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost every clinical situation, this book should make constructing meaningful reports easier.;For interviewing the client: this step-by-step guide includes an extensive selection of questions to use in beginning the interview, collection of questions on every topic of concern to the evaluation of mental status, and ordinary language questions to elicit information on difficult-to-evaluate clinical symptoms. Other aspects of the patient's functioning are also included.;For report writing efficiency: the book follows the sequence of the classic report, with each chapter corresponding to one of the usual headings, such as: background information; referral reasons; behavioural observations; presentation of self; emotional/affective symptoms and disorders; components of cognition/mental status; personality patterns; activities of daily living; diagnostic statement/impression; summary; recommendations; prognosis; confidentiality notices; and closing statement.