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

Beitman, Bernard D.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0803973810 ISBN 13: 9780803973817

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1998

Riassunto

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.

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Contenuti:

Introduction
PART ONE: COST CONTAINMENT
Tools of Cost Containment
Mental Health Inc
A Fictional Behavioral Healthcare Company
Payers, Providers and the Evolution of Managed Care
PART TWO: THE CLASH BETWEEN COST CONTAINMENT AND CLIENT CARE
Ethics of Client Care under Cost Containment
Effects of Cost Containment on Therapists, Practice and Training
PART THREE: WHAT THERAPISTS CAN DO FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CLIENTS
Confront Key Problems for Psychotherapy
Participation in Systems outside of Psychotherapy
Reinvent Yourself, Again
Psychotherapy in the 21st Century

Product Description:

'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.

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• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803973810
• ISBN 13: 9780803973817
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 159