Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management London. He is the UK's first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz art and coastal walking.
What information do you need to assess the therapeutic needs of a client? Could you identify a suicidal client? Do you know what your clients want and need? How can you tell whether or not you are dealing with appropriate clients? Client Assessment answers these questions and more providing clear, straightforward guidelines. It covers a crucial, but often neglected, area of counselingùthe assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of clients and the help they need or are receiving. Transcending specific counseling theories, the book adopts a broad-brush approach, covering the main issues involved at different stagesùfrom meeting the client to ending the counseling process, and including on-going monitoring of the therapeutic program, such as: + assessing the best type of therapy for the client; + assessment of the clientÆs therapeutic goals; + choosing techniques and strategies to suit the clientÆs needs; + history taking; + referral; + and evaluating goal achievement. The ability to assess and evaluate clients successfully is a necessary part of being an effective counselor, and this book, written by practitioners with many years experience, will be a valuable resource for training and practicing counselors as well as to all those in the helping professions.
