Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Adults

Edited By:

Leon VandeCreek

Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or a new clinician, this expanded volume in the more focused Innovations in Clinical Practice series will expand your knowledge, sharpen your skills, and teach you new techniques for working with adults and enhancing your practice.

All of the highly praised features of the past volumes have been retained, including:

• Contributions by experienced researchers and clinicians.
  
• Clear, concise ideas and techniques typically available only at professional workshops.
  
• Presentations covering a broad range of issues including
  • Empirically supported assessment and treatment procedures
  • Ethical and legal concerns
  • Practice management issues
  • Useful instruments and forms
  • Client handouts.
    
• All new material with no duplication from other Innovations volumes.
• A large (8 1/2" x 11") deluxe paperbound format.

REVIEWS

“This book combines the clinical, the practical, and the ethical in a manner that will be very useful to the practitioner. I was particularly impressed with the wealth of material, such as questionnaires and handouts, that can be used in the course of day-to-day practice.”
-George Stricker, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Argosy University, Washington DC

“This volume in the series is aimed at practitioners working with adults. Each of its short chapters provides the practitioner with a new technique to add to their repertoire. Practitioners should find this book a useful addition to their office shelves.”
-Lynn P. Rehm, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University Houston

“Innovations in Clinical Practice, with its new format focusing in depth on relevant clinical problems or populations is of immeasurable value to practitioners. The clinical issues discussed not only provide state of the art, background information on selected clinical topics but also provide the practitioner ideas for assessment and treatment. . . . [It] focuses on topics important in today’s practice.”
-Diane J. Willis, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; President, Society of Clinical Psychology

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CLINICAL ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression*
Colleen E. Carney & Zindel V. Segal

Assessment and Treatment of the Elderly: Clinical and Ethical Issues*
Jeffrey E. Barnett & Caitlin B. Dunning

Assessment and Treatment of Nightmares Using the Hill Cognitive-Experiential Approach to Dream Work*
Kristin J. Heaton & Clara E. Hill

Cognitive Therapy for Adult ADHD*
J. Russell Ramsay & Anthony L. Rostain

Behavioral Treatment of Late-Life Insomnia*
*Kristen G. Cook, Sidney D. Nau, & Kenneth L. Lichstein

Clinical Applications of Medical Hypnosis*
Eric P. Simon

Dialectical Behavior Therapy of Severe and Chronic Problems*
Sharon Y. Manning

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA*
Samuel Knapp

What Should Your Employees Know About Confidentiality? A HIPAA Training Guide
Samuel Knapp

Guidelines for Employment and Practice Building*
Martin G. Wunsch

ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS & CLIENT HANDOUTS

Assessment Instruments:

• Multifaceted Life Events Checklist Constance T. Fischer
  
• Geriatric Depression Scale Jeffrey E. Barnett
  

Client Handouts:

• Facts About Schizophrenia Kim T. Mueser
• Causes of Insomnia The American Insomnia Association
  
• Next Steps The American Insomnia Association
  
• If You’re Over 65 and Feeling Depressed: Treatment Brings New Hope The National Institute of Mental Health
  
• How to Help the Older Driver The American Medical Association
  
  

SELECTED TOPICS

Maintaining Boundaries When Treating Divorcing Families* William Hudgins

Combining Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy* Robyn R. Miller & Richard L. Smoot

Family Intervention for Schizophrenia* Kim T. Mueser

Clinical and Ethical Issues When Treating Impaired Drivers* Samuel Knapp

Contributions marked with red asterisk (*) are included in the Continuing Education Program