Understanding Assessment in Counselling and Psychotherapy

This book offers students and trainees a thorough guide to clinical assessment. It covers different types of clinical assessment and explores the implications of the alternative views on clients needs and treatment. It explores clinical assessment as an art and science and brings the reader up to date with new requirements placed on therapists in both organisational and clinical practice based settings. In addition to outlining models for clinical assessment, it looks at the use of evidence-based practice in assessments. There are sections on doing assessments within organisations as well as from private practice.

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Sofie is a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist and holds a PhD from Lund University, Sweden, where she specialised in parental involvements and reflective practice of teachers within education. She trained as a therapist within Relate and at Roehampton University where she conducted research in reflective practice in counselling an psychotherapy. She has worked within adult education, as a course trainer for Workers Educational Association and as a radio producer for the National Swedish Radio and Television, SVT. She currently works as an Academic Supervisor at the Metanoia Institute on their joint doctorate programme with the Middlesex University. Biljana Van Rijn is a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist and the Head of Clinical Practice at Metanoia Institute, London, where she teaches on the BSc in Reflective Therapeutic Practice and the MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. She has a private practice in Chichester, West Sussex and has published widely in various academic journals.

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Introduction; The role of the assessor in private practice; 'Diagnosing' problems; Treatment - illuminating shaded areas?; Assessment in organisations: an overview; Conducting an assessment; Assessment skills; Appendix 1; References; Index

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