This Bibliography is intended to provide resources to enhance the Kennedy Approach to Psychiatric Treatment Planning and Outcome Measure.

The Kennedy Approach has become the Gold Standard for Psychiatric Treatment Planning because it is simple, intuitive and easy to use. This leads to effective treatment plans that can be easily generated and easily understood by clinicians and their patients.

CAUTION:

Alternatives to the Kennedy Approach are often too complicated for practical use. Therefore, be very careful when modifying the Kennedy Approach that you don't create plans that are so complicated that clinicians have great difficulty generating the plans and more important, clinicians, as well as their patients have great difficulty understanding the plan.

With the above caution in mind, the Kennedy Approach can be enhanced and/or tailored to the clinician's specific needs by the integration of some of the concepts and information presented in the following books:

SELECTED TREATMENT PLANNING BOOKS

1) THE COMPLETE ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER, THIRD EDITION, by Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., PhD and L. Mark Peterson, ACSW, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003.

"The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Third Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal review agencies. ..." This was taken from the book cover.

NOTE BY DR. KENNEDY: Like the Kennedy Approach, this treatment planning system is built around the Problem Oriented Medical Record.

2) ESSENTIALS OF TREATMENT PLANNING, by Mark E. Maruish, PhD, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002.

"Essentials of Treatment Planning presents a clear and concise approach to the development and use of treatment plans in behavioral health care settings. This nuts-and-bolts guide covers such essential material as the role and benefits of treatment planning in a clinical setting, methods for conducting comprehensive patient assessments, the use of assessment information to develop the basis of individual treatment plans, and stragegies for ongoing evaluations and revisions of treatment plans. ..." This was taken from the book cover.

NOTE BY DR. KENNEDY: Like the Kennedy Approach, this treatment planning approach is built around the Problem Oriented Medical Record.

3) REAL WORLD TREATMENT PLANNING, by Daniel Johnson, Behavioral Healthcare Administrator and Stephanie Johnson, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. 2003.

"This workbook is designed to help students learn and apply the skills necessary to construct good care plans in order to survive in today's managed care environments. The workbook focuses on showing students how to plan and properly document their essential activities. ..." This was taken from the publisher's website.

NOTE BY DR. KENNEDY: Like the Kennedy Approach, this treatment planning system is built around the Problem Oriented Medical Record.

4) TREATMENT PLANNING FOR PERSON-CENTERED CARE, by Neal Adams, MD, MPH and Diane M. Grieder, MEd, Elsevier Academic Press. 2003.

"This book offers an exciting, dynamic, and fresh approach to the challenges of developing individual plans for mental health and addiction services. Our goal is to help make planning a manageable task for providers, a meaningful process for individuals receiving services, and a resource tool to assure person-centered care and optimal outcomes.
It should be clearly stated at the outset that this book is not a how-to manual for completing forms. Rather, the focus should be on the process of using the service plan to build effective and collaborative healing partnerships with individuals and families in pursuit of resilience, wellness and recovery. ..." This was taken from the book's Foreword.

NOTE BY DR. KENNEDY: This treatment planning approach departs from the Problem Oriented Medical Record and to goal-directed individual planning. This book has some clear merits toward increasing patient involvement; however, it appears that these plans are not easily generated by clinicians and are not easily understood by their patients, especially patients with thought disorders.

5) TREATMENT PLANNING FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BETTER OUTCOMES, SECOND EDITION, by Richard B. Makover, MD, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. 2004.

"Treatment Planning for Psychotherapists: A Practical Guide to Better Outcomes, Second Edition, is a book for the beginning therapist and the seasoned clinician, a step-by-step exploration of the planning process. From initial assessments, through diagnosis and formulation, to the critical decisions about objectives, methodology, and technique, the new edition of this best-selling handbook offers clear, concise explanations and clinical case examples of practical treatment plans. An ideal tool for private practitioners, this comprehensive manual provides a sound basis for dealing with the demands of third-party payers and managed care systems.

Dr. Makover's unique approach emphasizes the importance of basing supportable treatment decisions on the "aim"--the desired overall outcome of the therapeutic work. ..." This was taken from the book's cover.

NOTE BY DR. KENNEDY: This treatment planning approach departs from the Problem Oriented Medical Record to goal-directed treatment planning. As an advocate of the Problem Oriented Medical Record, I have some concerns about this departure; however, it may not be unreasonable for patients in psychotherapy.