Getting Better at Private Practice

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 470
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Expert advice for building your private practice

The "business" of practice as a mental health professional is a skill that is seldom taught in school and requires thoughtful guidance and professional mentorship from those who have already succeeded.

Containing the collective wisdom and secrets of many expert practitioners, this helpful resource provides useful insights for setting up, managing, and marketing your practice, including timely advice on being a successful provider in the digital age?from Internet marketing to building your online presence.

Designed for private practices of any size and at any stage of development, this practical guide looks at:

• Creating your dream niche practice
• Choosing the right technological tools and resources to simplify and streamline your job
• Leveraging the Internet to market your practice
• Developing a practice outside of managed care
• Transitioning to executive coaching
• Ethical and legal aspects of private practice

Full of action-oriented ideas, tips, and techniques, Getting Better at Private Practice provides both early career and seasoned mental health professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to establish, develop, and position their practice so that it is financially successful and life-enriching over the long term.Content:
Chapter 1 Differences in Business Structures and Protections in Human Service Private Practice: Which Suits Your Practice Best? (pages 1–12): Jonathan D. Nye
Chapter 2 Making Ends Meet: Financial Management in Private Practice (pages 13–32): David W. Ballard
Chapter 3 Managed Care Contracting: Strategies for Negotiating and Maintaining Relationships (pages 33–51): Bridget Morehouse
Chapter 4 Ethical and Legal Aspects of Private Practice (pages 52–68): Scott Hammer and Kenneth H. Kessler
Chapter 5 How Writing a Column for Your Local Newspaper Can Enhance Your Private Practice (pages 69–82): Linda Sapadin
Chapter 6 How Self?Publishing Can Enhance Your Private Practice (pages 83–94): Linda Sapadin and John E. Mayer
Chapter 7 Working with the Media (pages 95–106): Pauline Wallin
Chapter 8 The Power of Community Networking (pages 107–149): Melhim W. Restum and Joe Bavonese
Chapter 9 The Benefits of Joining Professional Organizations (pages 150–163): Lisa R. Grossman
Chapter 10 From Vision to Mission: Building a Practice That is Personally Satisfying and Professionally Successful (pages 164–176): Heather M. Hale
Chapter 11 Web Sites and Internet Marketing (pages 178–195): Joe Bavonese
Chapter 12 Building Your Online Presence as an Expert (pages 196–213): Pauline Wallin
Chapter 13 Ethics and Social Networking Sites (pages 214–229): Laura A. Taylor
Chapter 14 The Google Factor: Ethical Considerations for Therapists Practicing in the Digital Age (pages 230–238): Ofer Zur
Chapter 15 Technological Tools for Therapists: A List of Helpful Software and Web Sites (pages 239–250): William E. Benet and Chris E. Stout
Chapter 16 Starting and Growing Concierge Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Practices (pages 252–265): William R. Lynch
Chapter 17 Developing a Practice outside of Managed Care (pages 266–278): Steven Walfish
Chapter 18 Using Feedback?Informed Therapy (FIT) to Build a Premium?Service, Private?Pay Practice (pages 279–291): Jason A. Seidel
Chapter 19 The One?Stop Shop: Collaboration beyond Psychology (pages 292–303): Brian K. Sullivan
Chapter 20 Psychologists in Dispute Resolution: Being Part of a Revolution! (pages 304–316): Amy L. Robinson
Chapter 21 Why Wait?: Building a Stellar Practice in Weight Management (pages 317–334): Brad Saks
Chapter 22 Becoming an Educational Consultant (pages 335–347): Heather M. Hale
Chapter 23 Building a Successful Education Business (pages 348–363): Jack Krasuski
Chapter 24 Blending Treatment Innovation and Economic Success for Working with Troubled Emerging Adults: The Yellowbrick Model (pages 364–375): Jesse Viner, Laura Viner and Chris E. Stout
Chapter 25 Transitioning to Executive Coaching (pages 376–393): Jeffrey E. Auerbach
Chapter 26 A Psychologist's Career in Sports Administration (pages 394–411): John E. Mayer
Chapter 27 Working in Sport Psychology (pages 412–425): Kate F. Hays
Chapter 28 “You're Fired! Hooray!” Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Fall Back in Love with Working in Psychology (pages 428–440): Michael Aisenberg
Chapter 29 Why All the Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Edification Embedded in This Book May Mean Nothing to You (pages 441–443): Linda Sapadin