PRACTICEPLANNERS® SERIES PREFACE
Accountability is an important dimension of the practice of psychotherapy. Treatment programs, public agencies, clinics, and practitioners must justify and document their treatment plans to outside review entities in order to be reimbursed for services. The books and software in the PracticePlanners® series are designed to help practitioners fulfill these documentation requirements efficiently and professionally.
The Practice
Planners® series includes a wide array of treatment planning books, including not only the original
Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, and
Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, all now in their fourth editions, but also
Treatment Planners targeted to specialty areas of practice, including:
• Addictions
• Co-occurring disorders
• Behavioral medicine
• College students
• Couples therapy
• Crisis counseling
• Early childhood education
• Employee assistance
• Family therapy
• Gays and lesbians
• Group therapy
• Juvenile justice and residential care
• Mental retardation and developmental disability
• Neuropsychology
• Older adults
• Parenting skills
• Pastoral counseling
• Personality disorders
• Probation and parole
• Psychopharmacology
• Rehabilitation psychology
• School counseling
• Severe and persistent mental illness
• Sexual abuse victims and offenders
• Social work and human services
• Special education
• Speech-language pathology
• Suicide and homicide risk assessment
• Women’s issues
In addition, there are three branches of companion books which can be used in conjunction with the
Treatment Planners, or on their own:
• Progress Notes Planners provide a menu of progress statements that elaborate on the client’s symptom presentation and the provider’s therapeutic intervention. Each Progress Notes Planner statement is directly integrated with the behavioral definitions and therapeutic interventions from its companion Treatment Planner.
• Homework Planners include homework assignments designed around each presenting problem (such as anxiety, depression, chemical dependence, anger management, eating disorders, or panic disorder) that is the focus of a chapter in its corresponding Treatment Planner.
• Client Education Handout Planners provide brochures and handouts to help educate and inform clients on presenting problems and mental health issues, as well as life skills techniques. The handouts are included on CD-ROMs for easy printing from your computer and are ideal for use in waiting rooms, at presentations, as newsletters, or as information for clients struggling with mental illness issues. The topics covered by these handouts correspond to the presenting problems in the Treatment Planners.
The series also includes:
• TheraScribe®, the #1- selling treatment planning and clinical record-keeping software system for mental health professionals. TheraScribe® allows the user to import the data from any of the Treatment Planner, Progress Notes Planner, or Homework Planner books into the software’s expandable database to simply point and click to create a detailed, organized, individualized, and customized treatment plan along with optional integrated progress notes and homework assignments.
Adjunctive books, such as The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer and The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, contain forms and resources to aid the clinician in mental health practice management.
The goal of our series is to provide practitioners with the resources they need in order to provide high quality care in the era of accountability. To put it simply: We seek to help you spend more time on patients, and less time on paperwork.
ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, JR.
Grand Rapids, Michigan