موفقیت مالی در عمل سلامت روان: ابزارها و استراتژی‌های ضروری برای متخصصان

In this volume, authors Walfish and Barnett provide a comprehensive toolkit for practitioners to develop their business acumen and fully complement their extensive clinical training. Without question, top-notch clinical expertise in addition to sound business practices are the winning combination for long-term success. Financial Success in Mental Health Practice shows readers how to market their practice, ensure its profitability, provide quality client service delivery, manage office overhead, implement effective accounting practices, handle commercial taxes and business expenses, navigate insurance claims and reimbursements, and plan for retirement. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this volume is packed with sample forms, letters, and question lists and also includes fee schedules, key principles of private practice, and interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs and executive managers. This complete resource will equip the early career or seasoned clinician with the tools and strategies needed for a rewarding and fruitful career.

In this volume, authors Walfish and Barnett provide a comprehensive toolkit for practitioners to develop their business acumen and fully complement their extensive clinical training. Without question, top-notch clinical expertise in addition to sound business practices are the winning combination for long-term success.

Financial Success in Mental Health Practice shows readers how to market their practice, ensure its profitability, provide quality client service delivery, manage office overhead, implement effective accounting practices, handle commercial taxes and business expenses, navigate insurance claims and reimbursements, and plan for retirement. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this volume is packed with sample forms, letters, and question lists and also includes fee schedules, key principles of private practice, and interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs and executive managers.

This complete resource will equip the early career or seasoned clinician with the tools and strategies needed for a rewarding and fruitful career.

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For graduate students or practicing psychologists interested in developing expertise in clinical health psychology, provides information and advice on the core content of the field, professional roles and protocol, effective assessment and intervention strategies, ethical issues, and the malpractice risks. Revised from the 1987 Practice of Clinical Health Psychology published by Pergamon Press, with updated listings of resources and training programs and the latest concepts and practices of ethics and malpractice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"For many independent mental health practitioners, having a profitable business and being an empathic clinician may seem mutually exclusive. In graduate training, little emphasis is placed on learning, refining, and mastering the business aspects of private or group practice. In fact, very few clinical doctoral programs provide any business or financial management training for future practitioners. In this volume, Steven Walfish and Jeffrey E. Barnett provide a comprehensive tool kit for practitioners to develop their business acumen and fully complement their extensive clinical training. The authors skillfully demonstrate that top-notch clinical expertise along with sound business practices is the winning combination for long-term success. Financial Success in Mental Health Practice shows readers how to market their practice, ensure its profitability, provide quality client service delivery, manage office overhead, implement effective accounting practices, handle commercial taxes and business expenses, navigate insurance claims and reimbursements, and plan for retirement. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this volume offers sample forms, letters, and fee schedules, as well as interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs and executive managers. This complete resource will equip the early career or seasoned clinician with the tools and strategies needed for a rewarding and fruitful career"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) The mindset of the therapist : being a caring professional and earning a living are not mutually exclusive You are a small business owner : think like an entrepreneur Customer service and competence : the keys to financial success in independent practice Models of independent practice Office overhead : you have to spend money to make money Loss prevention : increasing the likelihood you get paid by clients and insurance carriers Understanding basic accounting and taxes Understanding the insurance needs and options of the independent practitioner To managed care or not to managed care : that is the question How independent practitioners earn money Attending to your finances : "what do you mean I don't get a pension?" Closing your practice : financial implications and options. "Financial Success in Mental Health Practice shows readers how to market their practice, ensure its profitability, provide quality client service delivery, manage office overhead, implement effective accounting practices, handle commercial taxes and business expenses, navigate insurance claims and reimbursements, and plan for retirement. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this volume is packed with sample forms, letters, and question lists and also includes fee schedules, key principles of private practice, and interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs and executive managers. This complete resource will equip the early career or seasoned clinician with the tools and strategies needed for a rewarding and fruitful career." --Book Jacket "Practicing psychologists and professional graduate students will find this classic guide invaluable for developing specialized expertise in clinical health psychology. The authors, 30-year veterans in the field, provide an overview of the roles and functions of clinical health psychologists as well as the education, training, personal, and professional issues involved. Chapters on assessment, intervention, and consulting with medical colleagues present nuts-and-bolts strategies, case examples, and down-to-earth advice for effective practice."--BOOK JACKET Introduction to clinical health psychology Becoming a clinical health psychologist Clinical health psychology assessment Intervention strategies in clinical health psychology Pitfalls in practice Ethical issues in the practice of clinical health psychology Liability risks in clinical health psychology Future issues for clinical health psychology.