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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.

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
Confi dentiality
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
Duty to Warn
Duty to Report
Confi dentiality 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

What Makes the Counseling Relationship Different?
Establishing Rapport
Carl Rogers and the Therapeutic Relationship
John Norcross and the Division 29 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
Practitioner Behaviors That Interfere with Therapy
The Two Sides of Catharsis
Transference and Countertransference
Reexamining Goals
What to Do When Therapy Isn't Working
Iatrogenic Effects of Therapy
Working Toward Termination
Summing Up
Exercises
Resources
Ending Treatment
Helping Clients Live Life between Sessions
Positive Termination Strategies: How to Know When You Are Done
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