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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. The book provides an easy-to-read, inclusive approach covering EBP with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and terrorism, bereavement, substance abuse, mental illness, and problems experienced by older adults, among others.
Evidence-Based Practice with Special Client Populations
Part 3 applies EBP to a number of common and often complex client problems. Chapter 8 shows the way EBP would be used with “Cluster B” personality disorders, both in understanding the disorder using the research literature and in applying best practice. As in all the chapters in this section of the book, case studies are included to help the reader understand the way disorders affect clients and how the application of best evidence can have a positive effect on client functioning.
Chapter 9 shows the use of EBP with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from acts of random violence and terrorism. Many of the concerns about large numbers of clients experiencing PTSD following terrorist ...
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