Personality Assessment in Managed Health Care - Using the Mmpi-2 in Treatment Planning

Klappentext In response to the many challenges facing mental health professionals in the era of managed care! this highly respected group of contributors from academia! managed care! and full-time clinical practice! outline the importance of personality assessment! particularly through the use of MMPI-2. Butcher and his colleagues argue that psychological assessment plays an indispensable role in managed care! both because it is an essential tool for evaluating the effectiveness of therapy and because of its significant contributions to the structuring and shortening of the process of therapy. By providing working examples of psychological treatment in the context of managed care! this book shows us that the most effective treatments use personality assessment as their foundation. Zusammenfassung Contributors to this volume show the importance of psychological assessment in the era of managed care. They argue that this assessment plays a vital role in managed care as a means for evaluating the effectiveness of therapy and for structuring and shortening of the process of therapy.

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• Authors: J. N. Butcher, James N. Butcher, James N. (Professor of Psychology Butcher
• Assisted by: James N. Butcher (Editor), James Neal Butcher (Editor), Butcher James N. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1997
• EAN: 9780195111606
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511160-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Health systems & services, Health systems and services