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In Our Clients' Shoes: Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment (Counseling and Psychotherapy) By Stephen E. Finn ( Lawrence Erlbaum )
Release Date: 2007-02-15
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In Our Clients’ Shoes conveniently assembles a number of important papers on the Therapeutic Assessment approach in one resource, explicating its history, theory, techniques, as well as its impact on clients and assessors. Author Stephen E. Finn incorporates pieces presented at various conferences over the past 13 years, in addition to previously unpublished work, with the intent to allow psychologists greater insight into their clients’ perspectives.
Arranged in three sections, the first set of papers describes the history and development of Therapeutic Assessment, including personal experiences of the author, which ultimately led him to focus on psychological assessment as a potential therapeutic intervention. The second section follows with a variety of essays to illustrate particular techniques of collaborative and Therapeutic Assessment. In this section, readers gain an understanding of how to integrate test findings, engage clients in discussing their experiences of a test, conduct assessment intervention sessions, and teach Therapeutic Assessment to graduate students. Finn concludes by drawing a link between Therapeutic Assessment and two major schools of psychotherapy: intersubjectivity theory and control-mastery theory. He also discusses how assessors grow and change as a result of practicing psychological assessment, and addresses practical matters such as when to apply the approach, how to bill for Therapeutic Assessment sessions, how to market Therapeutic Assessment, and where to find professional support for this kind of work.
In Our Clients’ Shoes is appropriate for all clinicians who wish to further impact the lives of their clients and enhance their own wisdom, compassion, and personal and professional development.
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Has become one of my central texts in the assessment sequence in our doctoral curriculum...
Steve Finn's book opens up a new world for most clinical psychology doctoral students, who despite learning to master administration, scoring and interpretation of psychological tests, often fail to learn how to write assessment reports and provide feedback to clients in a therapeutic manner. Psychological assessment can change people's lives for the better by helping people to develop a deeper understanding of themselves, their patterns and motives, not to mention its ability to link clients with the clinical services that are likely to provide them with benefit.
In his book, he explains in detail the difference between therapeutic and traditional assessment, and offers rich clinical examples and a useful theoretical discussion. I particularly like his examples of therapeutic assessment with an adult with ADHD and a child/family struggling with psychosocial challenges.
Clearly Finn has been heavily influenced by Constance Fisher's work, also remarkable in its own right.
All professors teaching assessment in clinical psychology programs would benefit from this eye-opening text!
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