Where to Start and What to Ask

An Assessment Handbook

By: Susan Lukas

Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin

A sink or swim philosophy frequently prevails in mental health settings today.

As a life raft for beginners and their supervisors, Where to Start and What to Ask provides all the necessary tools for garnering information from clients. Lukas also offers a framework for thinking about that information and formulating a thorough assessment. This indispensable audiobook helps therapeutic neophytes organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment and navigate even rough clinical waters with competence and assurance.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1993 Susan Lukas (P)2024 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

A Necessary Step from Theory to Internship

While still in a graduate program to be a clinical mental health counselor, I find this book a valuable resource, along with role playing, into beginning to practice as a student clinician. I have a feeling I will refer to it often as I get my feet under me during internship. I am pleasantly surprised that even though this book is over 30 years old, there are references to the limits of assessments culturally and that harm can be done if clinicians don’t do thorough research and spend enough time with the therapy participant while keeping one’s biases in check.