Workbooks are available to qualified  Mental Health professionals, students, and researchers from approved graduate training programs in various mental health disciplines, Non-professionals are free to order normalization workbooks without credentials required for ordering clinical workbooks.

Workbooks are designed to:

• Help train beginning graduate students in dealing with a variety of mental health issues in individuals, couples, and families by initially using workbooks as scripts for structured interviews and as guidelines for interventions

• Reduce guess-work in treatment planning

• Offer prepared scripts with clear feedback guidelines for written homework assignments as alternatives or additions to on-going face-to-face interventions

• Follow diagnosis-specific treatment plans based on leading mental health assessment tools or referral questions

• Provide uniform treatment and convenient protocols for either verbal face-to-face or tape-recorded, or written, and electronic media, such as TV, Fax, and PC

• Serve as software for computer-mediated-counseling, mental health training, prevention, counseling, or psychotherapeutic interventions

• Conduct inexpensive and easily controlled research, thus minimizing the need for elaborate record keeping, coding, and classification

• Reduce research time by reaching many more respondents per unit of researcher's time

• Conduct clinically relevant research with a variety of workbooks for a number of clinical conditions or syndromes

• Receive time-limited licensing privileges making workbooks cost-effective

This page last updated 10/23/2005 .

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