About the Book

This fourth volume in the more focused Innovations in Clinical Practice series addresses several key issues pertaining to mental health and its relationship to physical health and well-being. Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Health & Wellness includes new techniques and ideas for assessment and treatment in such areas as chronic medical illness and quality of life; the psychosocial impact of breast cancer; women's reproductive health; the psychosocial impact of organ failure and transplantation; behavior change with cardiac patients; child and adolescent eating disorders; and sexual abuse of children with disabilities. Other articles address such topics as including a sexual health component in your practice; the disparities in mental health care access between whites and minorities; designing an ethically appropriate professional website; providing mental health services through the Internet; psychotherapist self-care; and mental health services in correctional settings. In addition, this volume provides a number of informal assessment instruments for quality of life, adolescent suicide, stress, and eating disorders in preadolescent girls. Client handouts address coping with serious illness and eating disorders. (Other books in this series: Focus on Children & Adolescents, Focus on Violence Treatment & Prevention, and Focus on Adults)

Review

"At a time when the biopsychosocial model of practice is ascendant and practitioners and clients alike are aware of the mind-body connection, this volume, with its focus on health and wellness, provides the type of practical, pragmatic, practitioner-friendly information we have come to expect from Innovations in Clinical Practice. From issues of health disparities among minority populations to the evaluation and treatment of acute and chronic medical conditions, from clinician assessment instruments to client handouts, from direct applications to those available online, from concerns about the well-being of our clients to the ethical imperative of our own well-being, this volume provides new materials and reviews relevant information in an integrated manner. Invaluable reading for every practitioner wanting to be up-to-date about issues of health and wellness."
-Kate F. Hays, PhD, The Performing Edge, Toronto, Canada; Author of Move Your Body, Tone Your Mood and Working It Out: Using Exercise in Psychotherapy

Table of Contents

Clinical Issues and Applications

Optimizing Quality of Life When Treating Patients With Chronic Medical Illnesses*
Jeremy M. Bottoms & Jeffery B. Allen

Understanding and Assessing Cognitive and Psychological Deficits Accompanying Chronic Medical Disease*
Tricia M. Giessler & Jeffery B. Allen

Assessment and Treatment of the Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer*
Nicole L. Glick & Maurice F. Prout

Psychosocial Aspects of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Fertility*
Ann Morrison & Brenda J. B. Roman

Psychosocial Manifestations of Organ Failure and Transplantation*
Jerome J. Schulte

Assessment and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders*
Eve M. Wolf & Chrystal S. Collier

Assessment and Treatment of Children With Disabilities Who Have Been Abused*
Leo M. Orange & Martin G. Brodwin

Practice Management & Professional Development

Interventions for Bridging the Gaps in Minority Health*
Tawanda M. Greer

The Development of a Sexual Health Component in Your Practice*
Frederick L. Peterson, Jr. & Jill W. Bley

Designing a Mental Health Professional's Website: Practical and Ethical Issues*
Anthony Regusea

Problems and Solutions With Online Therapy*
Paul A. Smiley & Leon VandeCreek

Assessment Instruments & Client Handouts

Assessment Instruments:

• Quality of Life Rating (QOLR) Instrument Jeffery B. Allen
  
• Adolescent Suicide Assessment Protocol-20 William Fremouw, Julia M. Strunk, Elizabeth A. Tyner, & Robert (Bob) Musick
  
• The Index of Race-Related Stress - Brief Version (IRRS-B) Compiled by Tawanda M. Greer
  
• Eating Behaviors and Body Image Test for Preadolescent Girls Compiled by Eve M. Wolf

Client Handout:

• Coping With Serious Illness American Psychological Association

Eating Disorder Handouts:

Selected Topics

Psychotherapist Wellness as an Ethical Imperative* Jeffrey E. Barnett, Lesley C. Johnston, & Deborah Hillard

Ethical and Professional Issues for Mental Health Providers in Corrections* Ron Bonner

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

About the Editors

Leon VandeCreek, PhD, is Past Dean and current Professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University. He has been awarded the Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and he is a Fellow of several American Psychological Association divisions. His interests include professional training and ethical/legal issues related to professional education and practice. Dr. VandeCreek has served as President of the Pennsylvania Psychological association, Chair of the APA Insurance Trust, Chair of the Board of Educational Affairs of the APA, and Treasurer of the Ohio Psychological Association.. In 2005, he served as President of the Division of Psychotherapy of APA. He has authored and coauthored more than 180 professional presentations and publications including 22 books and book chapters for which he was coauthor or editor. Since 1992, he has served as Senior Editor of the Innovations in Clinical Practice series.

Jeffery B. Allen, PhD, ABPP-CN, is a Professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Allen's professional experience includes a specialty internship in neuropsychology at Brown University and a focused postdoctoral fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan in Detroit. Dr. Allen teaches physiological psychology and clinical neuropsychology, and does research in the areas of neurobehavioral disorders, quality of life in medical populations, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, and outcome measurement in rehabilitation. He is widely published in the areas of neuropsychology, head injuries, and memory in such sources as Neuropsychologia, Brain Injuries, and Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology and Assessment. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology and has published the text, General Practitioner's Guide to Neuropsychological Assessment, through the American Psychological Association.

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