‘From Feasting to Fasting, the Evolution of a Sin’ Attitudes to Food in Late Antiquity Edited by Veronica E. Grimm London: Routledge (1996), £50.00 (hardback), pp. 294, ISBN 0-415-13595-8
✍ Scribed by Helen Baxter
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-4133
- DOI
- 10.1002/erv.473
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
I sense that I need not recommend this book to US practitioners because unless they employ it or an equivalent, together with the many carefully worded forms it includes, they may have to go without supper. But I would also make that point that not to use a systematic approach to documenting assessments, intervention processes and relevant outcomes is not to allow your work to be evaluated independently for its quality, and not to learn continuously from your mistakes. And there is a silver lining in this particular cloud because this volume provides a useful excursion, albeit in no more than tentative prototype form, exploring the practicalities of such an approach. Accordingly, I would recommend cautiously exploring this volume now for several reasons. First, if you are interested in challenging the assumption that you are an effective therapist. Second if your work is to develop policies or implement practices for quality assurance in the psychological treatment of mental health problems. Third, a variation on it will surely be coming our way anyway in the form of obligatory outcomes assessment for NHS practitioners.