Competency-based assessments and the DSM-IV-TRTM
Subtitle: cases and practical applications
By: Susan Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780470505281
Description: "Organized around the classification system in the DSM-IV-TR, this book provides opportunities for professionals to practice making diagnostic assessments using case examples. Author Susan Gray begins with an overview of the competency-based assessment model and the multiaxial diagnostic framework, followed by guidance for interpreting the case studies. The remainder of the book is organized around selected diagnostic categories from the DSM-IV-TR. Mental health professionals will learn to use the DSM's multiaxial diagnostic framework, as well as a competency-based assessment model factoring in a client's unique biological, social, and cultural influences"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Competency-Based Assessment; title: Chapter 2 Formulating the Competency-Based Assessment Process: Some Basics; title: Chapter 3 Disorders in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence; title: Chapter 4 The Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia; title: Chapter 5 The Substance-related Disorders; title: Chapter 6 Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders; title: Chapter 7 The Mood Disorders; title: Chapter 8 Anxiety Disorders; title: Chapter 9 Somatoform, Factitious, and Malingering Disorders; title: Chapter 10 The Dissociative Disorders; title: Chapter 11 Eating Disorders; title: Chapter 12 The Personality Disorders; title: References.