The Therapist's Starter Guide Setting Up and Building Your Practice, Working with Clients, and Managing Professional Growth

by Lanci, Mark; Spreng, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780470228920
• ISBN10: 047022892X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Understand all the aspects of beginning and sustaining a therapeutic practice with The Therapist's Starter Guide: Setting Up and Building Your Practice, Working with Clients, and Managing Professional Growth, a practical, hands-on guide to professional fulfillment and business success. If you're a new practitioner or seek to grow your practice, this book will provide you with the skills you need to succeed, thrive and grow professionally and personally. Equip yourself with the knowledge you need to transition to a new job or to begin your own practice.

Author Biography

Mark Lanci, MSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who has worked in a variety of settings including an inpatient psychiatric center, the community mental health system and private practice as well as being the District Manager for a large, nonprofit healthcare organization, where he oversaw the behavioral healthcare provided by a network of independent contracted practitioners.

Anne Spreng, MEd, has been a counselor in a number of organizations, including a runaway shelter, a home for pregnant teens, a tenant support program, an adolescent day treatment program, an inpatient residential treatment program with children and adolescents as well as a behavioral health case manager for a large, nonprofit healthcare care organization. She is currently in private practice.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Setting Up And Building Your Practice
Defining Your Purpose
What Is the Purpose of Therapy?The Goals of Psychotherapy
Relationship-Oriented versus Evidence-Based Therapy
What Kind of Practitioner Are You?A Trip to the Therapist's Couch Summing Up
Exercises
Ethical Issues
Why Study Ethics?Ethical Codes
Practitioner Behavior
Practicing Outside Your Scope of Practice
Client Rights
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
Legal Issues
Confidentiality
Tarasoff v
Regents of the University of California
Duty to Warn
Duty to Report
Confidentiality and Working with a Minor
Record Keeping
Dealing with Licensing Boards
What Is Malpractice?The Difference between Supervision and Consultation
Receiving a Subpoena
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
The Importance Of Documentation
Using Client Charts To Keep Care Focused
Who Will See Your Charts?Before the Client Arrives
Getting Your Files Ready
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
Establishing Your Practice
Creating a Professional Identity
Developing Specialties
What Will You Charge?Developing Peer Consultation
Generating Referrals
Working with Insurance Companies
Time Management
Your Physical Space
Trends on the Horizon
The Use of Technology
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
Working With Clients
The Therapeutic Relationship
What Makes the Counseling Relationship Different?
Establishing Rapport
Carl Rogers and the Therapeutic Relationship
John Norcross and the Division	p. 2
Task Force
Summing Up
Exercises
How Will You Interact With The Client?
Motivational Interviewing
Client Satisfaction
Creating a Sense of Hope
Eliciting the Client's Concerns
Developing Collaboration with the Client
The Quest for Why
Insight versus Behavior Change
Setting Realistic Treatment Expectations
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
Understanding The Change Process
Prochaska's Model of Change
The Processes of Change Model
Assessing Stages of Change and Matching Interventions
The Stages of Change Model
Understanding Clients' Learning Styles
Locus of Control
Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism
Secondary Gains
Unconscious Motivations
Mental Wellness-What Is It?Summing Up
Exercises
Beginning Treatment
Determining What the Client Wants
Recognizing Pathology
Taking a Comprehensive History
The Structured Interview
Setting the Stage for Treatment
Accurate Diagnosis
Assessing Functional Impairments and Functional Goals
Case Conceptualization
Setting the Stage for Treatment
Focused Treatment Planning
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
The Middle Phase Of Treatment
Frequency of Sessions
Modality
Setting Up Time Frames
Working with Client Strengths and Exceptions
Identifying Intervention Points
Client Behaviors That Interfere with Therapy
Practitio
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