A Psychologist’s Casebook: Cases from Practice Used to Support Teaching Mental Health Practitioners

Drawing on examples from clinical practice, this book presents evidence-based psychological principles in an applied context to support effective practice in the helping professions.

Esther M Roodenburg is a former Monash University academic who remains committed to community involvement. After secondary teaching, raising 5 children, work as a community-based psychologist was explored within a qualitative PhD into individual differences. Her university graduate teaching and supervision focused on broad case-based practical applications of evidence based therapeutic approaches.

John Roodenburg was awarded the 2020 APS National Award of Distinction for leadership in Educational and Developmental Psychology while being a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at Monash University, Australia. Primary school teaching was followed by work as a school psychologist in rural Victoria. Graduate level teaching followed completion of a PhD modelling individual differences in thinking.