Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment - Hardcover

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Victoria E. Kress, Ph.D./LPCC-S (OH), NCC is a professor, counseling clinic director, and the director of the clinical mental health and addictions counseling programs at Youngstown State University.  She has over 20 years of clinical experience working in various settings including community mental health centers, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, private practices, and college counseling centers. She is passionate about infusing a strength-based, contextual frame into all of her clinical work, and strives to provide counselors with practical ways they can enhance their practice, and empower clients.

Matthew John Paylo, Ph.D./LPCC-S (OH), is an associate professor, director of the student affairs and college counseling program, and the program director of the counseling program at Youngstown State University.  He has over 10 years of clinical experience in various settings including community mental health centers, prisons, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, and college counseling centers.  Matthew is passionate about implementing evidence-based interventions within therapeutic relationships that illuminate empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness.

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Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Case Conceptualization and Treatment is the authoritative reference on selecting and applying treatments for use in counseling and treating those with mental disorders. In it, students and new counselors don’t just learn about the clinical issues, the DSM-5 system of diagnosis, and interventions that can be used in counseling and treating those with mental disorders, they see clearly how to proceed in treatment planning and how to implement treatment approaches and interventions. The authors present a conceptual framework model, I CAN START, which consists of case conceptualization components and addresses treatment planning from a strength-based, contextually sensitive perspective. A variety of features combine to make this a sound, comprehensive teaching and learning experience:

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