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This book and CD package is similar in design to other books in the Paso a Paso Series for Health Care Professionals. This package is specifically for mental health workers attempting to break through language and cultural barriers between English- and Spanish- speaking participants. The suggested application is a small group setting in the workplace in which a fluent Spanish speaker serves as a facilitator at one hour sessions held once a week. The learner is expected to work daily on exercises and practice listening and responding to the CD.

The premise is that the beginning learner will not be alone in a situation where a conversation is beyond their ability; the novice speaker will be part of a team and will acquire greater competency through active, on-the-job speaking and listening.

All too often non-English-speaking newcomers are isolated, separated from the family support systems they once enjoyed in their native countries. They are overwhelmed and don't realize assistance is available to address the depression, anger, and frustration they are feeling. This handbook and CD set will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients. ... Read more

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Waste of Money!
Unless you were in AP classes in high school and/or college, this book is not for you.As a native speaker and Spanish teacher (now teaching adults), I researched and came upon this book, which I thought would help me in designing a curriculum for beginner mental health professionals.It served no purpose.It was filled with dialogue; but unless you have a strong command of the Spanish grammar, it will not help.I guess what gets to me more than anything is you cannot "see" inside the book and get an idea of the table of contents. Also, NO WHERE in the book does it say YOU MUST HAVE a strong background of Spanish to be able to decipher the mumbo jumbo. ... Read more

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Praise for Marketing for the Mental Health Professional: An Innovative Guide for Practitioners

"This book is packed with useful strategies that have worked for years and years in the business world. People who follow the advice here are going to go places."
—Dr. Thomas Phelan, Psychologist and bestselling author of 1-2-3 Magic

"David's book is brilliant! He guides us through our own resistance and the unquestioned beliefs we have held around marketing, money, and our profession. Not only have I received a long-overdue education, David has inspired in me the creativity, courage, and confidence to create my own vision."
—Melinda Edwards, MD, Psychiatrist

A hands-on guide to building a successful mental health practice

There is real opportunity for growth, advancement, and overall success within the mental health profession. Marketing for the Mental Health Professional helps you acquire and apply the powerful, proven sales and marketing techniques and strategies needed to create and cultivate a thriving mental health practice.

Filled with real-life stories and helpful tips, this book provides you with the tools to build your practice, including guidance on:

• Using customer-based selling to create a thriving practice

• Developing effective strategies for engaging clients, building credibility, and earning loyalty

• Identifying true prospects that will lead to long-term success

• Using power, influence, and persuasion to help grow your practice

• Creating an impression and being remembered

• Using Internet technology to start a conversation and build relevance

A practical guide for professionals looking to achieve long-term success in the field, Marketing for the Mental Health Professional proposes a different way of thinking about the profession. It leverages and incorporates key business, sales, and marketing principles that "best in class" organizations and sales/marketing professionals use to generate an increase in market share, financial wealth, and overall achievement. ... Read more

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The Nuts and Bolts of Marketing
David's book provides an easy to read guide for recent graduates as well as established professionals. He gets down to the nuts and bolts of why marketing has changed and how to adapt to that change. He points to the internet and the conversations of world wide communities as a fact of life. Then he goes on to say how to thrive in the those communities as a mental health professional. I am using his book as a resource to help me as I start up my practice. Since reading David's book, I found my voice and the courage to join in the many converations of the mental health community around the globe. His advice is invaluable. A must read.

Great source for informationa and ideas
This book is a great source of information and ideas. It provides recommendations for how to get in front of people across the world, it suggests tips for those seeking a job in the mental health field and it provides realistic ways to get to the target market you want while helping your community. I highly recommend this book. As a new clinician it is a must have for any new to the field or anyone interested in building a career in mental health.

A successful guide to critical business and marketing aspects of mental health care!
David Diana has written a fun, easy-to-read, and extremely instructive text on the marketing strategies that are necessary in today's world of mental health care. However, this is just the beginning; the book is full of philosophical ideas and practical interpretations to such questions that can be used to enhance a practitioner's success. I've known many expert clinicians who are very capable in their clinical specialty areas, but often confess that they fall short in knowing how to market themselves, as well as how to manage the business side of their professional practices. I know they would find David Diana's book nvaluable as an investment in their professional futures. Also, there's something in this book for everyone, from the young professional entering this field, to seasoned clincians who think they may have "seen it all." The book is comprehensive in scope, and up-to-date in the necessary marketing principles that are driven by technologial advancements, such as Web-based modalities, Blogs, Twitter, and other ideas critical to networking. And David Diana does a terrific job in driving the point home, that in today's practice of mental health care, networking is key to having a successful and meaningful professional practice.

counselor
Very good book! This book is helpful and lends a hand to new counselors in private practice.

Mandatory For Meaningful Success!
Are you ready to make more money and help more people in less time? Are you ready to share your brilliance and passion with the world? Do you need help? If you answered yes to any of these questions this book is for you. David P. Diana delivers the new paradigm shift for success in the mental health or any other healthcare profession.He provides you with the mind set, tools and resources necessary to start your career on the right track or boost your business to new levels. This book IS mandatory for the 21st century mental health profession.

Rosalyn Adams, M.Ed., LPC
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This revised and expanded third edition text utilizes a public health framework and the latest epidemiological, treatment, and service systems research to promote a comprehensive understanding of the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health and substance abuse services in the United States. Written by national experts in the field, this timely work will provide policymakers, administrators, clinicians, and public health and behavioral health graduate students with the knowledge base needed to manage and transform mental health service systems, both nationally and locally.

The book is unique in providing a public health framework of the most significant issues facing mental health policy makers, administrators, planners, and practitioners. It combines issues (e.g., evaluation; law; ethnicity) that extend across different age groups, treatment settings, and disorders, with issues that are population and disorder specific.
The publication of this book is timely for those involved with the debate over national health care reform legislation, and provides important and timely information (on populations at-risk for mental disorders, services, and systems issues) for those responsible for implementing policies and programs resulting from this reform effort. ... Read more

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A one-stop guide to testifying in court for mental health professionals

Even the most seasoned mental health professionals can find themselves unnerved by the prospect of appearing in court, especially when presented with it for the first time. Those in the mental health field usually have no formal preparation for testifying in court, even though they often play an important part in many types of cases.

The Portable Guide to Testifying in Court for Mental Health Professionals provides a concise yet comprehensive guide for practitioners preparing to appear in court. The authors employ their combined decades of legal work in the mental health field to provide a clear, no-nonsense handbook of what to expect, how to prepare, and what to look out for when testifying in court.

Along with a general introduction to courts and the legal system, the text details topics such as:
* Testifying both as an expert and involuntary witness
* Protecting clients when bringing therapy into testimony
* Preparing for testimony
* Tips to use and lawyers' tricks to look out for when testifying in court


Throughout the book, Bernstein and Hartsell use detailed case studies to provide specific examples. In addition, "legal light bulbs" offer important tips and facts, and appendices list relevant Web resources and provide common legal forms.

A one-of-a-kind resource, The Portable Guide to Testifying in Court for Mental Health Professionals gives a complete view of your role in courtroom proceedings, offering a vital tool for both legal and mental health practices. ... Read more

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Forensic Psychology and Criminal Behavior
This book is well written, outlined and has relevant and current research examples. I have found it to a be very useful tool for reference material for class writing assignments, as well as, threads of information to do independent research.

A Sensible and User Friendly Guide to a Frequently Difficult Situation
Having been a practicing Licensed Clinical Social Worker for about 33 years now, I have, from time to time (thank goodness, rarely) found myself on the stand as either a 'simple' witness or, at times, as a certified expert witness. The experiences are amongst the most challenging and can be among the most awkward and unsettling of all of those a professional psychotherapist can have. How to answer questions and give helpful and relevant information without violating client confidentiality and without winding up being held in contempt for refusing to answer and chancing jail time for one's self is no situation for either amateurs, the inexperienced or the timid of heart. It is also no place for the uninformed. It is the last of these requisites that is nicely addressed in the book at hand.

Understanding that the handling of giving legal testimony requires some deeper-than-rudimentary orientation to the legal/court system itself, the meaning of testimony and the specific consequences and expectations once one is presented as an 'expert' are taken into account as one can plainly see initially by scanning the Table of Contents. The basic organization of the volume speaks volumes, in-and-of itself about the understanding by the authors of the importance of these issues. The book is presented in eight parts, as follows:
1. The Judicial System
2. Testimony Versus Therapy
3. Preparing For Testimony
4. In The Courtroom
5. The Expert Witness's Tools
6. Other Expert Witnesses
There is also an extensive set of Appendices that include sample forms, motions and other useful sources of relevant information - both in print and on line.

Testifying in court, as an expert therapist, is not simply a matter of honestly answering any question asked to you by anyone. It is FAR more complex than that. This book, presented largely in the format of sample questions and answers, descriptive exemplary vignettes, summaries of seminal information and occasional highlighted "Legal Lightbulbs" that underscore certain seminal issues and areas of attention does a reasonable thorough job of addressing most of what you would need to be aware of.

One issue that it, perhaps, does not dwell sufficiently on - from my point of view of course, is the ultimate subjective power of the judge. Yes, there are rules governing the behavior of the person in the black robe: however, judges, as a group, are not monitored seriously by either their peers or the governmental agencies of which they are a crucial part. They do what they want, when they want to - and each in his/her own way. The reality of this Wild Card in the courtroom is very difficult -perhaps even impossible to prepare for - except to be aware that it is one of the variables you may encounter once on the stand. Anyone who disagrees has not likely been on the stand in a real case - especially one where there are strong feelings and animosities involved - a situation more common than not in both Family and Criminal Court.

The authors are both attorneys and one of them (Barton Bernstein) is a Licensed Social Worker as well. They seem particularly qualified to address this need - for an accessible, clearly presented set of examples, suggestions, review of systems and expectations governing appropriate testimony from a clinical expert witness.

I have found it to be useful in my practice and I expect that most licensed mental health professionals will, too. Remember, your license and the nature of your work make winding up somewhere you would prefer not to be - on the witness stand in a court of law. When/if that happens, you want to be as prepared as possible. While the authors know nothing of YOU or YOUR CASES, they DO know what you need to know to do this correctly, well and ethically. I expect that this book, or ones like it, will ultimately be required reading for therapists in training. In the meantime, it isn't too late until it is too late. Take a look and you will see what I mean.

It does not take the place of necessary knowledge of the laws and requirements of your own State and it's laws and requirements, but what it presents is generally on the mark for all of us - wherever we practice.

To be forewarned and to be informed is to be better prepared.



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Handbook of Infant Mental Health
Book was in great new shape and had no markings or highlighting. good quality and fast shipping!

Infant Mental Health Resource
This book was so thourough, covering everything from risk and protective factors, to intervention, assessment and psychopathology. I especially like the breakdown in the end of the cross-disciplinarytraining in infant mental health. Also the chapter on Early Chilhood Policy: Implications for mental health policy. We cannot look at children in isolated pockets of health. This book speaks to every step forward that we need to take to serve the social-emotional health of our children.

Essential reading for graduate students and professionals
This book represents a comprehensive discussion of factors that influence the social and emotional health of very young children, when it goes well and when it goes awry. Many of the chapters deal with specific disorders of infancy and early childhood and with intervention techniques. It is essential reading for graduate students as well as professionals interested in infant/toddler mental health. ... Read more

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A new series of straightforward guides setting forth the laws most relevant to mental health practice in each state. This series arose from the author's experience teaching psychiatric residents, psychology interns, and social work students at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Consistently, trainees mentioned how helpful it was to have laws relevant to their clinical practice explained in a way that removed the mystery and anxiety they associated with lawyers, courts, and judges. Each volume in the series sets forth, in a clear, straightforward, and user-friendly manner, pertinent legislation and court cases, covering why the law was written, what the law says, and how the law affects clinical practice. This volume covers the statutes and court cases of California. ... Read more

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used book and looks brand new!
this is book is "used" but it is in perfect shape!! i love my results, i highly recommend!!!!!!

California Mental Health Law
Useful book.Written in easy to read and understand language for those of us who do not enjoy wading through otherwise dull and dry text of legal and ethical codes.In each chapter the authors respond to questions posed with thoughtful and clear responses.A part II of this text would be great and I for one, would purchase it if it were in the same format.

Outstanding coverage, best prep for CJPEE
This text clearly and concisely covers the most critical and challenging aspects of California mental health law. No legalese or unusual jargon, just common sense answers to your most frequently asked questions. I used this text to prepare for the CJPEE and I could not recommend it more highly. It's an interesting read and very helpful to the practicing therapist.

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This book is a detailed guide to the Mental Health Law of California.It elaborates in lucid fashion the details of the law including the role and responsibilities of physicians for commitment of the mentally ill.It makes clear the situations where the physician can and cannot act.

It is a useful resource for physicians and mental health workers who care for patientsIN CALIFORNIA. ... Read more