The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner / Edition 2

by Arthur E. Jongsma Jr., David J. Berghuis

Overview

The Couples Psychotherapy Progress Notes Planner, Second Edition contains complete prewritten session and patient presentation descriptions for each behavioral problem in The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Second Edition. The prewritten progress notes can be easily and quickly adapted to fit a particular client need or treatment situation.

• Saves you hours of time-consuming paperwork, yet offers the freedom to develop customized progress notes

• Organized around 35 behaviorally based presenting problems, including loss of love and affection, depression due to relationship problems, jealousy, job stress, financial conflict, sexual dysfunction, blame, and intimate partner violence

• Features over 1,000 prewritten progress notes (summarizing patient presentation, themes of session, and treatment delivered)

• Provides an array of treatment approaches that correspond with the behavioral problems and DSM-IV-TR™ diagnostic categories in The Couples Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Second Edition

• Offers sample progress notes that conform to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies, including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA

• Presents new and updated information on the role of evidence-based practice in progress notes writing and the special status of progress notes under HIPAA

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470936917
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/03/2011
Series:	PracticePlanners , #282
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD, is the Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners®. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He was the founder and director of Psychological Consultants, a group private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for twenty-five years. He is the author or coauthor of over forty books and conducts training workshops for mental health professionals around the world.

David J. Berghuis, MA, LLP, is in private practice and has worked in community mental health for more than a decade. He is also coauthor of numerous titles in the PracticePlanners® series.

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Table of Contents

PracticePlanners^® Series Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

Alcohol Abuse 3

Anger 13

Anxiety 25

Blame 37

Blended-Family Problems 45

Communication 55

Dependency 65

Depression Due to Relationship Problems 75

Depression Independent of Relationship Problems 87

Disillusionment with Relationship 97

Eating Disorders 107

Financial Conflict 115

Infidelity 125

Internet Sexual Use 135

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)—Intimate Terrorism 145

Intimate Partner Violence-Situational (Bi-directional)

Couple Violence 155

Intolerance 165

Jealousy 177

Job Stress 189

Life-Changing Events 201

Loss of Love/Affection 209

Midlife Transition Problems 219

Only One Partner Willing to Attend Therapy 229

Parenting Conflicts—Adolescents 239

Parenting Conflicts—Children 251

Personality Differences 263

Psychological Abuse 271

Recreational Activities Dispute 283

Religious/Spirituality Differences 291

Retirement 301

Separation and Divorce 313

Sexual Abuse 325

Sexual Dysfunction 335

Transition to Parenthood Strains 347

Work/Home Role Strain 357