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Author is the former president of Psychologists in Independent Practice, American Psychological Association. Presents options for starting an independent clinical psychotherapy practice, minus managed care. Discusses practical matters such as marketing, money matters, and details such as business cards. For those who would like to tailor an ethically sound practice.

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A practice-building guide for therapists and healing professionals. Therapist and business coach Lynn Grodzki shows readers how to build an ideal practice--one custom designed to be both highly profitable and personally satisfying. Here they will find information, coaching, and support to help them make more money in private practice, be more confident as business owners, generate a steady flow of referrals, set good practice policies, and stay profitable. Best of all, the inspiring, practical tone of the book will reduce the fear and anxiety that affect so many professionals in private practice. AUTHORBIO: Lynn Grodzki lives in Silver Springs, Maryland.

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Author is in private practice, Silver Spring, MD. Text on how to build a successful practice outside managed care. Discusses developing a framework for practice, a business vision, attracting clients, avoiding pitfalls, learning strategies, and staying

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Practical text for psychotherapists on how to market themselves to managed care organizations.

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All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground up

Many mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin?

Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own practice from the ground up. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy book provides you with tools and techniques for starting and maintaining a thriving private practice, including information on:

* Discovering your ideal practice
* Creating a business plan
* Financing your start-up
* Setting fees
* Setting up shop and measuring results
* Minimizing risk
* Managing managed care
* Marketing your practice
* Generating referrals
* Utilizing additional print, Web, and organizational resources

From major concerns such as ethics and liability to day-to-day matters like selecting stationery and business cards, Getting Started in Private Practice puts the best solutions at your fingertips. Whether you’re a recent graduate or a seasoned pro, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing a solo practice while maximizing the rewards.

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This indispensable guide presents the tools therapists need to incorporate outcomes measurement effectively and meaningfully into everyday clinical work. Outlining a highly flexible system based on the author's extensive experience in the real world of clinical practice, the book and disk feature more than 25 ready-to-use, reproducible checklists and forms. Clear, step-by-step guidelines show clinicians how to use outcomes evaluation to improve and market their services and nourish the growth of their practice. Readers with only minimal statistical knowledge will quickly and easily learn to:
*Implement four different methods of gathering client outcome data, from simple master lists of problems, to checklists, standardized scales, and tailor-made instruments
*Integrate measurement procedures into routine practice in a clinically useful fashion
*Organize outcomes data with readily available database software
*Evaluate therapeutic change in one client or a diagnostic group
*Produce well-documented reports on the delivery and quality of care
Many of the book's generic and targeted measures can be photocopied for immediate use or printed out from the companion disk. Clement's system can also be used with a wide range of commercially available measures: specific suggestions are provided throughout. A wealth of charts, figures, and handy statistical conversion tables further enhance the book's utility.

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Twenty years ago, a therapist could hang up a shingle, make some networking calls, and begin to create a steady stream of referrals. Since then, private practice has changed dramatically. Now therapists everywhere are struggling just to keep their practices going. The need has never been greater for sound business tools for building and marketing a therapy practice. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice is essential reading for newly licensed therapists, seasoned professionals, and others wanting to prepare practitioners for success.
How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice guides you from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed. You will learn that a private practice is, in effect, a small business. Chapters contain solid training to help you not only to survive, but also to thrive in a highly competitive market place. Examples, worksheets, business forms, flow charts, paper and pen exercises, and even assignments in the "real world," expose you to essential materials and ideas.
Coverage includes surveying the needs of one's community, capitalizing on unusual market niches, marketing ideas to build one's practice, creating brochures, widening one's scope and expertise through public speaking, seminars, workshops, and writing, analyzing financial data and projections, tracking client information, and more.
* Contains foreword by American Psychological Association President Dr. Patrick DeLeon
* Provides a crash course in business management for therapists
* Includes examples, worksheets, business forms, and exercises
* Supplies tools for bypassing restrictions of managed care
* Suitable for newly licensed therapists and seasoned professionals
Written by a licensed therapist with over 19 years of experience in private practice, this book is a much-needed reference for mental health practitioners pursuing fee-for-service practice.

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For therapists, coaches, and healing professionals who need quick results. This workbook offers a strategic program that will help professionals expand their practice. Based on the author's popular book, Building Your Ideal Private Practice, the workbook incorporates fresh ideas, new skill sets, favorite exercises, and generous advice.

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