The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook: The Complete Paperwork Resource for Treating Clients with Addictions

by James R. Finley, Brenda S. Lenz

All of the requisite forms addiction treatment professionals need―a crucial time-saver in today's healthcare system

Treating addiction in today's healthcare environment means that mental health professionals must manage an imposing amount of paperwork. Government and private grant funding, insurance and benefits programs, regulatory compliance, and the need for data on treatment effectiveness (evidence-based treatment) all require proper documentation. If these forms are missing, the results can range from bureaucratic headaches to problems serious enough to close a practice.

Now fully updated and revised, The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook: The Complete Paperwork Resource for Treating Clients with Addictions, Second Edition provides the most useful and current forms for accurate and comprehensive documentation and record keeping. These ready-to-use forms will save you and your practice hours that would otherwise be spent creating and collating them, freeing you to devote more energy to the important matters of treatment. A companion CD-ROM includes all documents in Word? format so you can customize them according to the unique needs of your practice.

Covering every aspect of mental health practice for addiction treatment, this fully revised Second Edition also includes: The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook, Second Edition is an essential timesaving resource that allows any professional practicing or working in the field of addiction treatment the freedom to give more of their time and energy to the people they serve.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2005

About the author

I'm a retired Marine (1976-1996) and retired psychotherapist and author. In the Marine Corps I served as an infantryman, marksmanship instructor, drill instructor, career planner, computer operator, data systems officer, and communications officer. As a clinician I worked primarily with people with addictions, mood disorders, PTSD, and anger management issues. As a therapist I worked more years in the state prison system than anywhere else, including stints in the state forensic psychiatric hospital and teaching at the Corrections Academy, as well as working with gang members, couples, and families. I wrote or co-authored books for clinicians with the goal of providing practical resources, mainly therapeutic homework assignments for clients, that they could adapt to their specific needs.
Books in print: two coauthored with Brenda S. Lenz, with whom I also designed and ran an intensive outpatient addiction treatment program, The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook, 2nd Ed., and The Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, 4th Ed.; one written solo, Integrating the 12 Steps Into Addiction Therapy; and one as co-author with Bret A. Moore, a psychologist who was working with military personnel at the time, the Veterans and Active Duty Military Homework Planner.
I am also in recovery and have been clean and sober since 1990.
Home life: I live in New Mexico with my wife Jan. I have one brother living nearby, and adult children, grandchildren, and one great-grandson living in California. I still work for one cat, a benevolent tortoiseshell tyrant, named Bolt for her habit of zooming through any door leading to someplace she isn't supposed to go if it's open for a millisecond (I actually think she teleports but haven't caught it on video.)
I have strong interests in military affairs, psychology, domestic and world politics, history, and various hobbies including woodworking and cooking which I practice with more enthusiasm than skill. I like science fiction and fantasy. One of these days I want to tackle writing some military/political science fiction. I've completed NaNoWriMo once but not finished the resulting manuscript yet.

Reviews

[James]

When Brenda Lenz and I wrote this, our hope was that it would be as useful for others as the materials we put into it have been for us. Our goal was to produce a book that a clinician could pick up and immediately start using.