Are you a psychotherapist who uses Facebook and Twitter? Do you blog or engage in other forms of social media? If so, you need to consider the sticky situations that you may stumble into without any ill intent. Here is one article by Dana Scarton in the Washington Post that highlights examples of {...}
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Risk Management
Suicide By Managed Care
I told you what you might need to know about working with managed care and I told you why I choose not to work with managed care. Today I ran across another post written by Rand Partridge, Ph.D. about the conflicts of interest inherent in contracting to work with managed care.
Suicide seems like a {...}
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Setting Different Fees For Different Clients
One of the choices every practitioner in private practice has to make is how to set your fees.
Karlaye from Arizona writes . . .
. . . I set my base fee at $ 125 per hour . . . but the insurance companies that I work for set it at $85-95. If I have a private patient, its fine, but when I have a {...}
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23 Reasons To Join Your Professional Associations Today
Earlier this month, I was asked to speak to a group of new professionals interning at Aurora Mental Health Center. The topic was on why it's important to join your state and national professional associations. Just in case you are hesitating, here are 23 reasons that I believe you should join your {...}
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