This Facilitator’s Guide is designed to help lead an educational training session in empirically informed treatment planning. It is to be used in conjunction with the DVD and Companion Workbook (both sold separately). The guide explains the process of delivering a training session.

In this guide you will find in each chapter:

• Chapter Review Questions and Answers
• Chapter Review Test Questions and Answers
• Optional Discussion Questions with Talking Points
• Chapter References

In appropriate chapters the references are divided into those for "Empirical Support," those for "Clinical Resources," and those for "Bibliotherapy Resources."

The Facilitator's Guide has brief summaries of the answers to the chapter review questions. The "Chapter Review Test Questions" section contains "test-style" questions that can be asked of participants or taken by them as a self-test. The Facilitator's Guide contains the answers to these questions, which can then be reviewed. The "For Discussion" section offers a selected discussion topic as well as talking points to help facilitate the discussion. This section is designed to offer facilitators the option of exploring a key concept further should he or she desire.

Finally, Chapter Five (“How Do You Integrate ESTs into Treatment Planning?”) contains highlights of the lecture material, summary of treatment plan components, an outline of the EST procedures, transcripts of psychotherapy vignettes that demonstrate ESTs, and critiques of the vignettes. References are also made to homework assignments contained in the Companion Workbook that demonstrate selected therapeutic interventions discussed in the DVD.

Appendix A: Explanations of all correct and incorrect answer options

TIMOTHY J. BRUCE, PhD, is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Illinois, where he also directs medical student education. He is Executive Director of the Center for the Implementation of Empirically Informed Mental Health Practices, a state- and federally funded initiative to disseminate empirically informed psychological and pharmacological practices across Illinois.

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is the Series Editor for the bestselling PracticePlanners®. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He was the founder and Director of Psychological Consultants, a group private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for 25 years. He is the author or coauthor of over forty books and conducts training workshops for mental health professionals around the world.