Counselling and Psychotherapy in Private Practice

Informationen zum Autor Roger Thistle spent 10 years in banking until he retrained and developed a career as a counsellor and supervisor, dividing his time between his own private practice in Surrey and acting as a consultant to newly developing counselling services. Klappentext This practical book explores the conflicts of running a private practice that needs to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs at the same time as being a successful and profitable business. The author provides straightforward advice and guidelines about how a business can be set up and thereafter maintained successfully. Tax, VAT and accounting are explained clearly, and examples of budgets illustrate how to make the business perform. Business research, marketing and promotion, finding and using suitable premises, working from home, forming partnerships, dealing with insurance, legal and safety issues and other essential considerations are all covered in detail. The book also encourages a comprehensive assessment of the practitioner's emotional needs and physical health as well as financial security. Zusammenfassung Explores the conflicts of running a business that needs to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on business! tax! VAT and accounting with examples of budgets to illustrate how to make business perform. Inhaltsverzeichnis You and Private Practice Business and Private Practice Trading Style, Accounts, Taxes and Private Practice Assessments, Contracts, Records and Private Practice Premises and Private Practice Safety, Boundaries, Insurance and Private Practice Promoting Private Practice Defining Success in Private Practice

Product details

• Authors: Roger Thistle, Thistle Roger
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.1998
• EAN: 9780761951049
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5104-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Professional Skills for Counse; Professional Skills for Counsellors Series; Professional Skills for Counsellors Series; Professional Skills for Counse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy: counselling, Small businesses and self-employment, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment, Counseling & Psychotherapy