Title: Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions
Description: "Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Practice covers the use of research and critical thinking to assist helping professionals make the most effective choices in treating clients with social and emotional problems. The use of evidence-based practice (EBP) comes at a time when managed care and concerns over health care costs coincide with growing concerns that psychotherapy, case management, and counseling may not be sufficiently effective ways of helping people in social and emotional difficulty." "Improving the Effectiveness of the Helping Professions is ideally suited for undergraduate and graduate students in social work, psychology, counseling, criminal justice, psychiatric nursing, and psychiatry. This book should also prove beneficial to all practitioners and specialists in the helping professions."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Evidence-Based Medicine, Mental health counseling, Psychiatric social work, Counseling, Santé mentale, Service social psychiatrique, Médecine factuelle, MEDICAL, Mental Health, Psychiatry, General, PSYCHOLOGY, Clinical Psychology, Mental Illness, Psychopathology, Geestelijke gezondheidszorg, Evidence-based practice, Psychiatrische patiënten, Methods