Douglas E. DeGood - The Behavioral Medicine Treatment Planner

I dedicate this book to the memory of Timothy C. Toomey-a sorely missed friend, mentor, colleague, and contributor to the field of behavioral medicine.

Douglas E. DeGood

I dedicate this book to my parents, John and Neva Crawford, in appreciation for their love and support over the years.

Angela L. Crawford

I dedicate this book about the confluence of psychology and medicine to my daughter, Michelle L. Jongsma, an oncology nurse practitioner who provides sensitive emotional support and other powerful medicine to all of her patients at Georgia Cancer Specialists.

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr.

The practice of psychotherapy has a dimension that did not exist 30, 20, or even 15 years ago-accountability. Treatment programs, public agencies, clinics, and even group and solo practitioners must now justify the treatment of patients to outside review entities that control the payment of fees. This development has resulted in an explosion of paperwork.

Clinicians must now document what has been done in treatment, what is planned for the future, and what the anticipated outcomes of the interventions are. The books and software in this Practice Planner series are designed to help practitioners fulfill these documentation requirements efficiently and professionally.

The Practice Planner series is growing rapidly. It now includes not only The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner and the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, but also Treatment Planners targeted to specialty areas of practice, including: chemical dependency, the continuum of care, couples therapy, employee assistance, behavioral medicine, therapy with older adults, pastoral counseling, family therapy, group therapy, and more.

In addition to the Treatment Planners, the series also includes TheraScribe: The Computerized Assistant to Psychotherapy Treatment Planning and TheraBillerTM: The Computerized Mental Health Office Manager, as well as adjunctive books, such as the Brief, Chemical Dependence, Couple, Child, and Adolescent Therapy Homework Planners, The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer, and Clinical, Forensic, Child, Couples and Family, Continuum of Care, and Chemical Dependence Documentation Sourcebooks-containing forms and resources to aid in mental health practice management. The goal of the series is to provide practitioners with the resources they need in order to provide high-quality care in the era of accountability-or, to put it simply, we seek to help you spend more time on patients, and less on paperwork.

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, JR.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

The enthusiastic response to The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner has triggered a series of books under the rubric of Practice Planners, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Treatment Planner books have been written that focus on specific patient populations (e.g., chemical dependence, couples, adolescents, children) as well as those that focus on specific treatment modalities (e.g., family therapy, group therapy, continuum of care). To date, eight Treatment Planning books have been published, and six more (e.g., Neuropsychology, Gay and Lesbian) are in various stages of being written or produced. All of the Treatment Planner books can also be purchased with an optional companion electronic disk attached to the back of the book. These disks are designed to import the book data into TheraScribe 3.0: The Computerized Assistant to Psychotherapy Treatment Planning. TheraScribe is available as a separate product and allows for the computer generation of individualized treatment plans using the data from any of the Treatment Planner books. A companion office management software program, TheraBiller, is also now available to work in conjunction with TheraScribe or as a stand-alone product to produce patient and insurance billing. The Practice Planners also include several Documentation Sourcebooks and Psychotherapy Homework Planners. All of these books are designed to reduce the clinician's time spent on paperwork and increase time available for patient contact.