Brief therapy and managed care: readings for contemporary practice

Characteristics of Psychotherapy Under Managed Behavioral Healthcare. Twenty--Five Questions to Ask Before Joining a Managed--Care Organization. Psychotherapy in a Staff--Model HMO: Providing and Assuring Quality Care in the Future (with Carol Shaw Austad). Promoting HMO Values and a Culture of Quality: Doing the Right Thing in a Staff--Model HMO Mental Health Department. Group Psychotherapy in an HMO. Teaching and Learning Short--Term Psychotherapy Within an HMO. On Time in Brief Therapy. The Challenge of Single--Session Therapies: Creating Pivotal Moments (with Robert Rosenbaum, Moshe Talmon). Single--Session Solutions. Managed Cared, HMOs, and the Ericksonian Perspective. Conjoint Patient--Staff Interview in Hospital Case Management (with Paul K. Opsvig, Norman W. Weinstein). Aspects of Termination in a Time--Limited Brief Psychotherapy. ""Patient"" or ""Client"": What's in a Name? ""Shrink"" or ""Expander"": An Issue in Forming a Therapeutic Alliance. Is Being ""In Recovery"" Self--Limiting? The Four Questions of Brief Therapy. Therapist Resistances to Short--Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Resolution of a Transference--Countertransference Impasse Using Gestalt Techniques in Supervision (with Robert I. Goulding). Psychodiagnosis of Personality Disorders. Brief Psychotherapies.

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A Blueprint for Focused, Time-Sensitive Treatment Michael F. Hoyt shares his lifetime of experience as expert clinician, researcher, and supervisor in one of the nation's largest HMOs to offer a wealth of illustrative case examples and practical information on how to provide more focused, time-sensitive treatment. In this timely resource book, comprising original chapters and carefully selected reprints, Hoyt presents guidelines on how to offer psychotherapy that is both conscientiously managed, appropriate, and sensitive to a client's needs.