Couples therapy in managed care : facing the crisis / Barbara Jo Brothers, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brothers, Barbara Jo, 1940-

Series:

Journal of Couples Therapy Monographic "Separates"

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marital psychotherapy.

Managed care plans (Medical care).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Couples Therapy in Managed Care: Facing the Crisis provides social workers, psychologists, and counselors with an overview of the negative effects of the managed care industry on the quality of mental health care. Within this book, you will discover the paradoxes that occur with the mixing of business principals and service principles and find valuable suggestions on how you can creatively cope within the managed care context. With Couples Therapy in Managed Care, you will learn how you can remain true to your own integrity and offer quality services within the current context of today's healt

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; From Virginia Satir: Models of Perceiving the World-Attitude Toward Change; Nothing Is "Here to Stay"; Is Multi-Generational Work Gone or Here to Stay? Working in a Managed Care Environment; Therapy with Men in Relationships in a Managed Care Environment; Working with Couples in the Current Environment; Integrative Psychotherapy in the Current Managed Care Environment: Does It Work with Couples?; How Managed Care Can Help Couples Cope; Comment: How Managed Care Can Help Couples Cope

Rejoinder to: "How Managed Care Can Help Couples Cope"Singing Our Own Song; Existential Marital Psychotherapy and the Experience of Managed Care; The Unmanageability of Characterologic Couples in Managed Care; Index

Notes:

"Couples therapy in managed care : facing the crisis has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of couples therapy, Volume 8, Numbers 3/4 1999."

First published in 1999 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-70888-1

1-317-70889-X

1-315-78256-1

9781315782560

OCLC:

874173227