Clinician's Thesaurus, Electronic Edition is a computer program that puts the entire language of the mental health professions at your fingertips and serves as a personalized text library. This comprehensive program works in conjunction with your own word processor, contains over 20,000 standard words and phrases, and is fully integrated with DSM-IV. Available in Windows Version 4.2 and Macintosh Version 4.0, Clinician's Thesaurus, Electronic Edition takes the struggle out of report writing; helps to organize your clinical thinking; simplifies your paperwork; and gives you the resources to write better reports. Based on the best-selling book Clinician's Thesaurus, the program is arranged in the familiar sequence of a standard clinical report. For example, Background and History, Emotional/Affective Symptoms, and Components of Mental Status are main categories. Click your mouse on "Emotional/Affective Symptoms," and sections devoted to such topics as Anxiety/Fear, Anger, and Depression appear. Click on "Depression" to see subsections such as Dysfunctional Cognitions, Behavioral Facets, and Mental Dullness. One more click, and the screen displays words and phrases that help you hone in on a client's precise description ready to copy and paste into your report. And, just as you can copy and paste out of the program into your reports, you can copy and paste into it, creating your own text library.

This book has been replaced by Clinician's Thesaurus, 8th Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3880-5.

A bestseller with over 150,000 copies in print, this popular guidebook offers an exhaustive checklist of thousands of words and phrases in an easily accessible format, enabling practitioners to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost any clinical situation.

Hundreds of thousands of students and early-career professionals have relied on this authoritative report-writing tool, now updated for DSM-5/ICD-10-CM and newer types of evaluations. In a convenient 8" x 10.5" format, the book covers nearly all areas of concern addressed in intakes, evaluations, treatment plans, progress notes, and closing summaries. The user seeking the right wording for a clinical document can skim and select from thousands of technical terms, behavioral descriptors, and standard statements. Also provided are interview questions for almost every symptomatic behavior, a huge collection of mental status questions, a reproducible Mental Status Evaluation summary form, and links to hundreds of internet resources. The companion website offers all the URLs from the book, the reproducible forms, and a handy reference on current psychiatric medications. New to This Edition *A list of all psychiatric ICD-10 diagnoses (all of the codes in DSM-5, plus many more), including Z codes essential to a comprehensive biopsychosocial evaluation. *Sample evaluation report keyed to the book's chapters. *Sections on additional clinical issues: intimate partner violence, gender identity, human trafficking, recovery-oriented language, and more. *Many more Internet links, including a wide variety of screening and assessment tools. See also The Paper Office for the Digital Age, Fifth Edition, by Edward L. Zuckerman and Keely Kolmes, which provides the essential record-keeping and risk-reduction tools that every psychotherapy practice needs.

Providing therapists practical solutions to managed care's erosion of their freedom to practice, this book presents a working blueprint for a private-pay psychotherapy practice. Dana C. Ackley casts out the distortions that have crept into many clinicians' thinking as a result of reliance on third-party reimbursement. Based on his own experience, he shows how you can serve clients--and yourself--better by developing real alternatives to the pressures and bureaucracy of managed care. In clear step-by-step detail, including practical exercises and checklists, sample marketing materials, and payment plans, the volume shows you how to: *Rediscover the economic and clinical value of your work *Discard assumptions that might block your progress *Educate yourself about the needs of potential clients *Market and sell your services effectively *Learn ethical, reasonable business-of-practice skills *Diversify into the rewarding area of psychological consultation to businesses. No matter what your clinical style, theoretical orientation, or practice history, you will benefit from the hard-won lessons Dr. Ackley shares in this book.