Saying Good Bye To Managed Care

Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Volume 1: Adults provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of clinical psychological practice for adults from assessment through treatment, including the innovations of the past decade in ethics, cross cultural psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, cognitive behavioral treatment, psychopharmacology, and geropsychology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Can I Run My Practice without Managed Care? 1 Saying Goodbye to managed Care: How You Can Do It. 2 Are You a New Professional or Graduate Student or Are You New to Private-Pay Practice? 3 Fast-Food Psychotherapy. Part 2: All About Money. 4 Money Matters. 5 How to Ask for Money and How to Get It. Part III: Carving Your Niche and Marketing Your Services. 6 Watch Your Language! 7 Are You a Generalist, Specialist, or Both? 8 Your Path to Success: The Gold Standard. 9 Value-Added Services: Why Other Professionals Need Psychotherapists. 10 It Is Moral to Market. Part IV: Basic Tools of the Trade. 11 Stationery and Business Cards. 12 Flyers, Newsletters, Fact Sheets, and Brochures. Part V: Intermediate Tools of the Trade. 13 Speeches and Workshops. 14 web Listings and Basic Web Pages. Part VI: Advanced Tools of the Trade. 15 Press Releases, Pitch Letters, and Authoring a Book. 16 Interviewing for Print, Radio, and Television. 17 Advanced Web Sites, Virtual Groups, Online Counseling, E-zines, and Electronic Publishing. 18 Advertising. Part VII: Putting It All Together. 19 The Final Step to Success: Using What You Know to Create Your Independent Psychotherapy Practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Can I Run My Practice without Managed Care? 1 Saying Goodbye to managed Care: How You Can Do It. 2 Are You a New Professional or Graduate Student or Are You New to Private-Pay Practice? 3 Fast-Food Psychotherapy. Part 2: All About Money. 4 Money Matters. 5 How to Ask for Money and How to Get It. Part III: Carving Your Niche and Marketing Your Services. 6 Watch Your Language! 7 Are You a Generalist, Specialist, or Both? 8 Your Path to Success: The Gold Standard. 9 Value-Added Services: Why Other Professionals Need Psychotherapists. 10 It Is Moral to Market. Part IV: Basic Tools of the Trade. 11 Stationery and Business Cards. 12 Flyers, Newsletters, Fact Sheets, and Brochures. Part V: Intermediate Tools of the Trade. 13 Speeches and Workshops. 14 web Listings and Basic Web Pages. Part VI: Advanced Tools of the Trade. 15 Press Releases, Pitch Letters, and Authoring a Book. 16 Interviewing for Print, Radio, and Television. 17 Advanced Web Sites, Virtual Groups, Online Counseling, E-zines, and Electronic Publishing. 18 Advertising. Part VII: Putting It All Together. 19 The Final Step to Success: Using What You Know to Create Your Independent Psychotherapy Practice.

Expert advice for building your private practice The "business" of practice as a mental health professional is a skill that is seldom taught in school and requires thoughtful guidance and professional mentorship from those who have already succeeded. Containing the collective wisdom and secrets of many expert practitioners, this helpful resource provides useful insights for setting up, managing, and marketing your practice, including timely advice on being a successful provider in the digital age from Internet marketing to building your online presence. Designed for private practices of any size and at any stage of development, this practical guide looks at: Creating your dream niche practice Choosing the right technological tools and resources to simplify and streamline your job Leveraging the Internet to market your practice Developing a practice outside of managed care Transitioning to executive coaching Ethical and legal aspects of private practice Full of action-oriented ideas, tips, and techniques, Getting Better at Private Practice provides both early career and seasoned mental health professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to establish, develop, and position their practice so that it is financially successful and life-enriching over the long term.

Psychotherapy is an increasingly stressful profession. Yet therapists spend most of their time helping clients deal with their stress, not caring for their own. This book is designed as a tool for the experienced counselor, junior therapist, and graduate student, as the issues confronted and discussed herein are relevant to anyone in the field, regardless of experience or expertise. Dr. Weiss has written a book in an easy, conversational tone, filled with concrete examples and blending research findings, clinical experience and theoretical approaches into practical suggestions and sound advice. The book is divided into three parts, discussing therapist concerns and questions that are continually raised, and providing practical tools based on clinical experience and research findings. It will be useful to all mental health professionals who have felt the strain of their practice.

Hunt, a psychologist in private practice, outlines strategies that will help mental health professionals establish and maintain their private practices. She guides readers through fundamental issues, from choosing an office to dealing with insurance carriers. The strategies presented involve reducing overhead, streamlining routine procedures, and implementing efficient client policies. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ending therapy in an appropriate and meaningful way is especially important in work with children and adolescents, yet the topic is often overlooked in clinical training. From leading child clinicians, this much-needed book examines the termination process--both for brief and longer-term encounters--and offers practical guidance illustrated with vivid case material. Tools are provided for helping children and families understand termination and work through associated feelings of loss and grief. Challenges in creating positive endings to therapy with children who have experienced trauma and adversity are given particular attention. Several reproducible forms can be downloaded and printed from the companion website in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. The companion website also features nine full-color figures.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field. Author René Muller presents a revealing look into how psychiatry has failed a great majority of patients, all the while recognizing the valiant efforts made by psychiatrists who maintain their integrity and serve their patients well. The result is an enlightening critique of the profession—one that pits criticism of psychiatry's current biological reduction and exaggerated promises against the accumulated wisdom of a profession that has struggled for a century and a half to understand and help those with mental illness.

Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health caremovement is being implemented and its impact on insurers,providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additionalcontributions by health care's leading strategists,innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven HealthCare presents a compelling vision of a health care system builtto satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinkingon the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including newconsumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; typesof insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care;personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.

Dr. John A. Kastor has studied two leading centers in specialty care, the Cleveland Clinic and the University Hospitals of Cleveland, to learn what these institutions are doing to survive in the current era. Using the findings of more than two hundred interviews with physicians, administrators, investigators, and trustees, the author describes in detail these rival organizations, their individual struggles against the economic pressures presented by managed care, and their sometimes bitter competition for patients.