| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149). |
| Summary |
The US is witnessing a dramatic alteration in the manner in which health and mental health services are funded, organized, and delivered. Vigorous efforts by large and small purchasers of health and mental health services to reduce costs have placed more and more demands on practicing psychologists. For all who feel the force of these winds of change, this Guidebook was created to put the changes in perspective and to offer guidance for maintaining a viable, profitable practice. Most practitioners are experiencing the impact of this movement to "corporatize" American health care. Surviving the changes will require using your clinical training in new and innovative ways. This Guidebook is a response to the practicing psychologists who have called or written the American Psychological Association (APA) Practice Directorate for assistance in solving business questions related to their practices. From these questions, it became clear that a comprehensive, organized approach to the business operations of psychological practices was needed. This Guidebook is a place to turn for guidance about the business of operating a psychological practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Contents |
Introduction: the need for a guidebook -- Environmental assessment: a look at the health care and mental health care marketplace -- Trends in mental health care delivery: the corporatization of a caring profession -- Models of practice: determining which type of organization is best -- Developing plans: assessing your situation and taking action -- Making your practice a successful business: putting business into practice and practice into business -- Conclusion: the practice of the future. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Clinical psychology -- Practice -- United States.
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Practice Management, Medical -- United States.
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Psychology, Clinical -- economics -- United States.
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Marketing of Health Services -- United States.
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Clinical psychology -- Practice.
(OCoLC)fst00864416
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
American Psychological Association. Practice Directorate.
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| In: |
PsycBOOKS |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Yenney, Sharon. Business strategies for a caring profession. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1994 1557982546 (DLC) 94013771 |
| ISBN |
1557982546 |
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9781557982544 |
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