This book contains twenty client profiles to use in practicing interviewing and diagnostic skills. Ten profiles are of adult cases ranging in age from eighteen to seventy (chapters 3-12). Ten profiles are of child or teen cases ranging in age from seven to seventeen (chapters 13-22). In addition to age, the twenty profiles vary in terms of ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, presenting problems, and level of problem severity. The instructor can have students simply read through these profiles and then complete the three sets of exercises that follow them. These exercises help students develop diagnoses using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
