Psychotherapist''s Guide to Cost Containment - How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Managed Care

Klappentext `Provides a useful insight into the revolution that has taken place in psychotherapy practice in the United States' - Michael Maltby! The Journal of Critical Psychology! Counselling and Psychotherapy In an age when psychotherapists are subjected to cost-saving measures which run counter to their wish to optimize care for their clients! this book is particularly timely. After chapters on the mechanics of cost containment and the clash between cost containment and client care! the author shows practitioners how to live with the enemy and to provide psychotherapeutic care in these adverse circumstances. Zusammenfassung This book is intended to help therapists of all professions and of all schools to blunt the sharp forces of cost containment and to chart a hopeful path toward enabling psychotherapists once again to take responsibility with their clients for making the decisions that optimize psychotherapeutic care. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPART ONE: COST CONTAINMENTTools of Cost ContainmentMental Health Inc A Fictional Behavioral Healthcare CompanyPayers! Providers and the Evolution of Managed CarePART TWO: THE CLASH BETWEEN COST CONTAINMENT AND CLIENT CAREEthics of Client Care under Cost ContainmentEffects of Cost Containment on Therapists! Practice and TrainingPART THREE: WHAT THERAPISTS CAN DO FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CLIENTSConfront Key Problems for PsychotherapyParticipation in Systems outside of PsychotherapyReinvent Yourself! AgainPsychotherapy in the 21st Century

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Beitman, Bernard D. Beitman
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.1998
• EAN: 9780803973824
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7382-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology