Group Psychotherapy and Managed Mental Health Care A Clinical Guide for Providers

The Brunner/Mazel Mental Health Practice Under Managed Care Series addresses the major developments and changes resulting from the introduction of managed care in health care delivery. Volumes in the series enable mental health professionals to provide effective therapy to their patients while conducting and maintaining a successful practice. The series is under general editorial direction of S. Richard Sauber, Ph.D.Focuses on what is sure to become the most practiced form of mental health care under any managed care system, public or private: short-term group psychotherapy. Comprehensive, "how-to" coverage includes a general overview of managed care principles and tenets of brief group psychotherapy-- process of creating a managed care group . hospitalization factors-- innovative thinking in order to design appropriate models of group treatment for patients diagnosed with specific problems."...step-by-step directions to group therapists on how to plan, initiate, conduct, and complete group therapies under managed care.... replete with excellent examples, will prove to be an extremely valuable resource for practitioners". -- William E. Piper, Ph.D., Univ. of AlbertaSpitz, Henry I. is the author of 'Group Psychotherapy and Managed Mental Health Care A Clinical Guide for Providers' with ISBN 9780876307915 and ISBN 0876307918.