Research Catalog

Title

Breaking free of managed care : a step-by-step guide to regaining control of your practice / Dana C. Ackley.

Author

Ackley, Dana C.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, c1997.

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Details

Description

xviii, 317 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Clinician's toolbox

Uniform Title

Clinician's toolbox.

Subject

• Psychotherapy > Practice
• Psychotherapy > Marketing
• Managed mental health care
• Mental health consultation > Practice
• Industrial psychiatry > Practice
• Practice Management, Medical > economics
• Fee-for-Service Plans
• Financing, Personal
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-302) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Looking Beyond Managed Care. Ch. 1. Descent, Recovery, and Our Future. Ch. 2. Restoring Professional Self-Esteem, Rediscovering Our Value. Ch. 3. The Business of Practice. Ch. 4. Conceptual Changes We Must Make -- Pt. II. How to Build a Private Pay Therapy Practice. Ch. 5. The Fundamental Strategy. Ch. 6. How to Learn from Your Market and Where That May Lead. Ch. 7. Planning the Business of Your Practice. Ch. 8. How to Market Traditional Services -- Pt. III. Diversifying Your Services: Taking Your Skills to the Workplace. Ch. 9. New Applications for Your Skills: People Consulting in the Workplace. Ch. 10. Learning from Those in the Workplace and Where That Can Lead. Ch. 11. Making a Business Plan for People-Consulting in the Workplace. Ch. 12. Marketing and Selling to Business.

ISBN

1572301058 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96048406

OCLC

• 35836740
• ocm35836740
• SCSB-4783361

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries