Psychotherapy in Independent Practice: Current Issues for Clinicians Weitz, Robert

Weitz, Robert

ISBN 10: 1560242329 / ISBN 13: 9781560242321

Editore: Psychology Press, 1992

Brand New Hardcover Book. Codice articolo 16648

Riassunto:

This enlightening new book provides insight into issues of major significance to practicing psychologists, educators, and psychologists in public service on the changing roles of psychotherapists. This collection of chapters is broad in scope and offers practical guidelines for clinicians to use in their own practice as well as discussions of important public policy issues. A wide range of topics are organized into six timely areas of concern:

• the role of psychologists in health care
• post-doctoral training for the specialty of psychotherapy
• psychotherapists in independent settings versus managed health care settings
• liability risks in treating dangerous and abusive patients
• eclectic uses of the metaphor in psychotherapy
• alternate treatment methods for reducing marital violence. Psychotherapy in Independent Practice not only describes the most current events relating to these issues, it also completely covers their implications for psychotherapists and gives specific guidelines and techniques for addressing these issues in private practice. Professionals will find comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field as well as implications for the future of psychotherapy in this invaluable volume. The field of psychology is examined as a cost-effective and innovative component in health care including recommendations for the improved training and education of professional psychologists. Authoritative contributors debate the pros and cons of the psychologist's role in managed health care organizations. Cases and strategies for clinicians are presented relating to liability and confidentiality in psychotherapy with potentially dangerous patients. Also addressed is the duty to protect HIV-positive patients involved in high-risk behaviors. Innovative treatments are included such as the use of dreams and imagery in cognitive behavior therapy, guidelines for using meditation with abusive couples, strategies for treating battered women, and the use of metaphor in RET therapy. Psychotherapy in Independent Practice is a vital resource for today's practitioner.

Contenuti: Contents I. Psychotherapists in Independent Practice and in Managed Health Care Settings--A Comparison

• Overview and Introduction
•  Working Both in Private Practice and in the HMO
•  From HMO to Private Practice
• Techniques in Independent Practice and Managed Health Care: Interviews with 43 HMO Psychotherapists
• Managed Health Care: Boon or Bane of Psychologists in Private Practice?
•  II. Liability Risks in Treating Dangerous and Abusive Patients
• Liability Risks in Treating Dangerous Patients: Introduction
• Recent Developments in the Duty to Protect
• Statutory Solutions to Liability in Duty to Protect Situations
• Public Policy Issues in Applying the “Duty to Protect” to HIV-Positive Patients
• III. Alternate Treatment Methods for Reducing Marital Violence
•  Introduction: Treatment Approaches at Various Stages in Abusive Relationships
• Comprehensive Family Therapy in the Treatment of Spouse Abuse
• Guidelines for Using Mediation With Abusive Couples
• Treating Battered Women in the Aftermath Stage
• IV. Post-Doctoral Training for the Specialty of Psychotherapy
• Introduction
• Postdoctoral Training for the Preparation and Regulation of Professional Psychologists
• Postdoctoral Education and Training for the Practice of Psychotherapy
• V. The Roles of Psychologists in Health Care
•  Psychological Practice in Hospitals
• Psychologists: An Essential Component to Cost-Effective, Innovative Care
• Psychologists: An Essential Component to Hospital Health Care
• VI. Eclectic Uses of Metaphor in Psychotherapy
• The Use of Metaphor in Rational-Emotive Psychotherapy
• Humor as Metaphor
• The Use of Dreams and Metaphor in Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
• Discussant Comments from Eclectic Uses of Metaphor in Psychotherapy
•  Recommended Books, Texts, and Monographs
• Reference Notes Included

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Titolo: Psychotherapy in Independent Practice: ...
Casa editrice: Psychology Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: New