Howard Rosenthal

Before You See Your First Client (eBook, ePUB)

55 Things Counselors, Therapists and Human Service Workers Need to Know

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before You See Your First Client begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a candid behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counseling and human services. In a reader-friendly and accessible style, Dr. Howard Rosenthal offers his readers 55 useful and practical ideas for the implementation, improvement, and expansion of one's mental health practice. Based on the author's own personal experiences, the book is written in an intimate and personal style to which inexperienced and beginning therapists can easily relate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135929619
• Artikelnr.: 47892972

Autorenporträt

Howard Rosenthal, Ed.D., NCC, is Director of the Human Services Program at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. A longtime Brunner-Routledge (and before that Accelerated Development) author, Dr. Rosenthal is the author of, among other best-selling Brunner-Routledge titles, The Encyclopedia of Counseling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Join Forces with a Psychiatrist to Open a Risk-Free Private
Practice 2. Don't Become Married to a Single Referral Source 3. Accept the
Fact That Salaries in This Field Are Often Unfair 4. It Pays to Be
Assertive When You're Shopping for Your Salary 5. Managed Care Panels Often
Slam the Door in Your Face 6. Managed Care Firms Dictate Who, When, and How
7. The Multicultural Diversity Secret: You Can Work with a Wider Range of
People than You Think 8. Never Give Any Client Information without a Signed
Release-of-Information Form 9. You Must Use a DSM or ICD Diagnosis to
Secure Third-Party Payments 10. The Insurance Superbill Must Have Your Name
as the Provider 11. Lecturing May Not Flood Your Waiting Room with Clients
12. Referrals Received Do Not Determine How Many New Clients You Actually
See 13. Managed Care Companies Discriminate against Some Counseling and
Psychotherapy Theories 14. Refer Severely Disturbed Clients for a Medical
or Psychiatric Evaluation 15. Find Out Whether the Psychological and
PsychoEducational Test Reports You Receive Are Individualized 16. Don't Be
Misled by Clients Who Initially Put You on a Pedestal 17. Most Professional
Certifications Won't Help You Secure Insurance Payments 18. Don't Use
Paradoxical Interventions with Suicidal and Homicidal Clients 19. Conduct a
Suicide Assessment on Each Initial Client 20. Don't Try to Clone Your
Favorite Therapist 21. When In Doubt, Use a Person-Centered Response 22.
Read Ethical Guidelines Before You Even So Much as Hug a Client 23. Don't
Rush to Therapeutic Judgment Until You Get All the Facts 24. The Number One
Therapeutic Blunder: Confronting Sooner than Later 25. You Are Not a
Failure if You Don't Land Your Dream Job 26. Your Supervisor's Knowledge
and Experience Should Not Be Underestimated 27. Use Verbiage Your Client
Will Understand 28. Be a Better Helper by Networking with Others in the
Field 29. Grandfathering: The Fast Track for Snaring Licenses and
Certifications 30. Use Free Advertising to Build Your Agency or Practice
31. Helpers Are Mandated Child-Abuse Reporters 32. Beyond Confidentiality:
Professional Counselors and Therapists Have a Duty to Warn 33. If You Want
to Work in a Public School, Contact the Department of Education 34. Don't
Let a Day from Hell in Court Lower Your Professional Self-Esteem 35. Save
Your Course Catalogs to Invest in Your Future 36. Enhance Sessions by
Adjusting Group Treatment Exercises and Using Small Talk 37. If a Client
Was Disappointed with the Previous Helper Find Out Why 38. Use Caution When
Considering the "In" Diagnosis 39. Don't Go into This Field to Recount Old
War Stories About Your Own Recovery 40. Don't Become Married to a Single
System of Psychotherapy 41. Be Enthusiastic if You Want to Be a Better
Workshop Presenter 42. Don't Try to Clone Your Favorite Mental Health
Lecturer 43. If a Client You Have Been Seeing for an Extended Period of
Time Requests Marriage, Family or Couples Therapy, Consider a Referral to
Another Therapist 44. Be Prepared to Change Therapeutic Strategies at a
Moment's Notice 45. Documentation: The Royal Road to Promotion 46. Avoid
Dual Relationships Like the Plague 47. Insider Tips for a Good Cover Letter
and Human Service Resumé 48. If You Are Daydreaming, Your Client Will
Perceive You as an Uninterested Helper 49. Pick a Theory of Intervention
and a Job You Believe In 50. Despite the Pitfalls, Make Friends with the
Media to Promote Yourself and Your Agency 51. Writing a Book or Starting a
Project? Ask Your Agency First 52. Your Employment and Credentials
Determine What You Pay for Malpractice Insurance 53. Private Practice Is
Not a Panacea for Everything That Ails You 54. Steer Clear of False Memory
Syndrome 55. Create an Emotional Trophy Closet to Help You Through a Bad
Day Conclusion