A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Care

by Kent; Alan J.

• ISBN13: 9780805834888
• ISBN10: 0805834885
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Careoffers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists. Although many books explore the ramifications of managed care for psychotherapy, this is the first to take a broad perspective and examine the ways in which the new health care delivery system is affecting all aspects of practice--not just treatment but also assessment and training--as well as mental health research. The authors include some of the country's most noted psychologists with extensive experience in managed care. Their tone is optimistic rather than pessimistic; as they look at developments others have only deplored, they see potential roles and opportunities for growth for psychologists. In an era of dramatic health change, all those practitioners who are concerned about how to make managed care work for them rather than against them, will find this Guideessential reading. ALTERNATE BLURB A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Careoffers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists. While many books explore the ramifications of managed care for psychotherapy, this is the first to take a broad perspective and examine the ways in which the new health care delivery system is affecting allaspects of practice--not just treatment but also assessment and training--and mental health research as well.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I: General Issues of Managed Care
An Overview of Managed Mental Health Care: Past, Present, and Future	3	(20)
Alan J. Kent
Michel Hersen
Part II: Modification of Traditional Roles Under Managed Care
Psychological Assessment and Testing Under Managed Care	23	(18)
William I. Dorfman
Individual Psychotherapy and Managed Care	41	(24)
Carol S. Austad
Group Psychotherapies and Managed Care	65	(22)
K. Roy MacKenzie
Part III: New Roles for Psychologists Under Managed Care
The Psychologist in Primary Health Care	87	(26)
Kirk Strosahl
Training Psychologists in the Era of Managed Care	113	(28)
Hanna Levenson
Joanna Burg
A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Care: New Roles and Opportunities	141	(22)
Nicholas A. Cummings
Author Index	163	(6)
Subject Index	169