Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 26, 2012 - Psychology - 552 pages
Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service.

Filled with numerous case examples and checklists, Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals contains a wealth of information on this important area of practice. It provides a comprehensive source for working with a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, discussing both traditional mental health consultation models and the fast-growing field of organizational consulting.

The guide is divided into four parts:

  • Individual-Level Consulting Issues takes up individual career assessment and counseling, along with how organizational contexts affect individual jobs; leadership, management, and supervision; executive assessment, selection, interviewing, and development; and executive coaching.
  • Consulting to Small Systems discusses working with teams and groups; planning and conducting training and teambuilding; diversity in the workplace and in consultation.
  • Consulting to Large Systems covers how to work with large organizations, including organizational structure, terms, culture, and concepts, as well as processes such as change and resistance; how to assess organizations, and the characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional workplaces; and issues involved in organizational intervention.
  • Special Consulting Topics include issues such as the practical aspects of running a consulting practice; the skills required for successful clinical consultation; consultation services for special populations; and crisis consultation, including critical incident stress management, psychological first aid, disaster recovery, media communication, and school crisis response.
 

Contents

Internal Versus External Consultants
An Abbreviated List of Coaching Methods and Techniques
Organizational Context
Causes of Underemployment
Leadership Management and Supervision
The Art of Negotiation
Executive Assessment Selection Interviewing and Development
Psychological Testing
Diversity Issues in Consultation
The Great Problem of Difference
The Nature of Organizations
Assessment of Organizations
Organizational Intervention
Practice Management
Clinical Consultation
Consultation Services for Special Populations

Derailment
Stumbling Blocks for Coaches
Working with Teams and Groups
Decision Making in Organizations
Training and Team Building
Case Example
Crisis Consultation
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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About the author (2012)

RICHARD SEARS, PsYD, MBA, Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio.

JOHN RUDISILL, PHD, ABPP, Dean,Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio.

CARRIE MASON-SEARS, PHD, is a psychologist in private practice and on staff at RHC-CITE Services, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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