Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals

by Sears, Richard W.; Rudisill, John; Mason-Sears, Carrie

• ISBN13: 9780471705109
• ISBN10: 0471705101
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service.Filled with numerous case examples and checklists, Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals contains a wealth of information on this important area of practice. It provides a comprehensive source for working with a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, discussing both traditional mental health consultation models and the fast-growing field of organizational consulting.The guide is divided into four parts: Individual-Level Consulting Issues takes up individual career assessment and counseling, along with how organizational contexts affect individual jobs; leadership, management, and supervision; executive assessment, selection, interviewing, and development; and executive coaching. Consulting to Small Systems discusses working with teams and groups; planning and conducting training and teambuilding; diversity in the workplace and in consultation. Consulting to Large Systems covers how to work with large organizations, including organizational structure, terms, culture, and concepts, as well as processes such as change and resistance; how to assess organizations, and the characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional workplaces; and issues involved in organizational intervention. Special Consulting Topics include issues such as the practical aspects of running a consulting practice; the skills required for successful clinical consultation; consultation services for special populations; and crisis consultation, including critical incident stress management, psychological first aid, disaster recovery, media communication, and school crisis response.

Author Biography

RICHARD SEARS, PsyD, MBA, Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio.

JOHN RUDISILL, PhD, ABPP, Dean,Wright State University School of Professional Psychology, Dayton, Ohio.

CARRIE MASON-SEARS, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and on staff at RHC-CITE Services, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(22)
Part One: Individual-Level Consulting Issues	23	(198)
Clinical Career Assessment and Counseling	25	(20)
Organizational Context	45	(31)
Leadership, Management, and Supervision	76	(38)
Executive Assessment, Selection, Interviewing, and Development	114	(39)
Executive Coaching and Performance Enhancement	153	(68)
Part Two: Consulting to Small Systems	221	(78)
Working with Teams and Groups	223	(26)
Training and Team Building	249	(21)
Diversity Issues in Consultation	270	(29)
Part Three: Consulting to Large Systems	299	(54)
The Nature of Organizations	301	(17)
Assessment of Organizations	318	(13)
Organizational Intervention	331	(22)
Part Four: Special Topics	353	(94)
Practice Management	355	(31)
Clinical Consultation	386	(27)
Consultation Services for Special Populations	413	(15)
Crisis Consultation	428	(19)
Glossary	447	(22)
References	469	(28)
Additional Reference Sources	497	(2)
Appendix	499	(16)
Author Index	515	(12)
Subject Index	527	(6)
About the Authors	533