Product Description

This book is a nuts-and-bolts guide to starting, growing, or improving a psychotherapy practice. Graduate psychology programs offer a wealth of information on honing one's therapeutic skills, but often provide little information on the "how to's" of practice: creating a successful business plan; tailoring your practice to suit your needs, talents, and values; marketing your services; finding an office that works for you and your clients; developing forms, policies, and procedures; finding the right attorney and professional liability insurance; responding to licensing, malpractice, or ethics complaints; using computers safely, efficiently, and effectively; and; taking care of yourself so you can provide the best possible service to your clients. All of these topics are covered in this book. Both psychologists just starting out and seasoned practitioners who want to expand, restructure, or enrich their practices will appreciate the authors' wit and wisdom. In addition to the 15 chapters, the book contains 15 appendices that make key APA professional standards and guidelines and other resources available for consultation in one handy source.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #518966 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 421 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781591472315
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Superb!!!
This is simply a superb book-- period. This book contains everything you could possibly need to know and then some about starting and maintaining a successful and ethical practice in psychology. Information for which I've had to search far and wide during my 18 years in practice is now right here in the most practical and informative resource imaginable. This amazing resource contains not only all the "must know" information, but also multitudes of tips and tidbits in the "if only I had thought of this earlier" category. Because of the information in this book, I am now able to act pre-emptively to avoid what to me had been unforseen problems and complications down the road. Most, if not all of us in this field have had to learn the hard way. Pope and Vasquez have put an end to that with the publication of this invaluable resource. My only regret is that they didn't write it 18 years earlier! Whether you are a psychology student, intern, practitioner, professor, or mentor to others in the field, this book is simply a "must have" resource.

Good, but too many questions, not enough suggestions!
I know, we all understand the importance of questions, and theirs are good ones. However, some sections of the book (especially Chapter 7) consist almost entirely of strings of questions, with relatively few recommendations. The practice guides and other information are helpful, but are less practical than the information to be found in the second book I bought (after being disappointed in this one), Holly Hunt's excellent book, "Essentials of Private Practice." Her book has much more on practical matters: billing, collections, and office procedures.

Underwhelmed
I bought this book as a reference for a seminar and was very underimpressed. Though it's 421 pages, the last 306 pages are appendicies of 15 different APA guidelines for treating people of certain populations. Don't get me wrong, these guidelines are important to good practice, they are simply not what I was looking for in a book about thriving as a therapist.
The text of the book, it turns out, is about 112 pages of mildly to moderately useful information. I am returning my copy and looking for something useful as a reference.