 xiii PRACTICE PLANNER S® SERIES PREFACE The practice of psychotherapy has a dimension that did not exist 30, 20, or even 15 years ago — accountability. Treatment programs, public agencies, clinics, and even group and solo practitioners must now justify the treat ment of patients to outside review entities that control the payment of fees. This development has resulted in an explosion of paperwork. Clinicians must now document what has been done in treatment, what is planned for the future, and what the anticipated outcomes of the interventions are. The books and software in this Practice Planners ® series are designed to help practitioners fulfill these documentation requirements efficiently and professionally. The Practice Planners ® series is growing rapidly. It now includes not only the original Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition, The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition, and The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition, but also Treatment Planners targe ted to specialty areas of practice, including: women, addictions, juvenile justice/residential care, couples therapy, employee assistance, behavioral medicine, therapy with older adults, pastoral counseling, family therapy, group therapy, psychopharmacolog y, neuropsychology, therapy with gays and lesbians, special education, school counseling, probation and parole, therapy with sexual abuse victims and offenders, and more. Several of the Treatment Planner books now have companion Progress Notes Planners (e. g., Adult, Adolescent, Child, Addictions, Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Couples). More of these planners that provide a menu of progress statements that elaborate on the client's symptom presentation and the provider's therapeutic intervention are in production. Each Progress Notes Planner statement is directly integrated with “Behavioral Definitions” and “Therapeutic Interventions” items from the companion Treatment Planner. The list of therapeutic Homework Planners is also growing from the Homew ork Planner for Adults, to Adolescent, Child, Couples, Group, Family, Addictions, Divorce, Grief, Employee Assistance, and School Counseling/School Social Work Homework Planners. Each of these books can be used alone or in conjunction with their companion Treatment Planner. Homework assignments are designed around each presenting problem (e. g., Anxiety, Depression, Chemical Dependence, Anger Management, Panic, Eating Disorders) that is the focus of a chapter in its corresponding Treatment Planner. Client E ducation Handout Planners, another branch in the series, provides brochures and handouts to help educate and inform adult, child, adolescent, couples, and family clients on a myriad of presenting problems mental health issues, as well as life skills techni ques. The list of presenting problems for which information is provided mirrors the list of presenting problems in the Treatment Planner of the title similar to that of the Handout Planner. Thus, the problems for which educational material is provided in the Child and Adolescent Client Education Handout Planner reflect the presenting problems listed in The Child and The Adolescent Psychotherapy 