Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment

by Victoria Kress, Matthew Paylo

Treating Those with Mental Disorders is designed to help future and newly practicing counselors feel empowered to thoughtfully and deliberately assist clients in managing complex issues and difficulties. It offers specific treatment planning, implementation, and intervention strategies in addition to background information on clinical issues and DSM-5 diagnoses and interventions. Real-life examples illustrate how critical counseling concepts and approaches are applied in actual practice.

The 3rd Edition updates all chapters to reflect the new content and research in the DSM-5-TR. It incorporates the most current research literature in all updated treatment discussions; explores the changing landscape of the mental health counseling field; adds discussion of the use of AI as related to diagnosing and treating; and much more.

638 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2026