A most complete and comprehensive guide to Building . . . Marketing . . . and Sustaining a managed-care-free fee-for-service private practice 150+ pages, 57 Topics, Hundreds of links & resources Step-by-step guide to getting out of managed care and to market your fee-for-service private practice Order Handbook online now and get it instantaneously. Available in a printable pdf download or in hard copy. Start you journey to freedom from managed care. Follow your bliss - find your calling. To review the Table of Contents, click here.

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Table of Contents:

Section 1: Private Practice - The Basics 1. 17 Characteristics of a Successful Therapist 2. Your Personal Vision 3. Management 4. Management Resources 5. The First Phone Call 6. Fees, Billing and Collection 7. Subpoenas 8. General Billing & HIPAA Billing 9. Malpractice Concerns 10. Basic Elements of Malpractice 11. What To Do if a Suit is Filed 12. Insurance-Liability Terminology 13. Professional Will 14. Deductible Business Expenses Section 2: Management Issues 15. Record Keeping 16. Confidentiality 17. Bartering 18. Termination 19. Treatment Plans 20. Home Office 21. Telehealth Section 3: Marketing Private Practice Outside Managed Care 22. Marketing Private Practice 23. Personal Reflections on Marketing 24. Principles of Marketing 25. Marketing 101 26. Stumbling Blocks to Marketing 27. Essentials of a Marketing Plan 28. Serving as an Expert-Educator in One's Community 29. Theoretical Orientations and Community Interventions 30. How Can I Help You? 31. Explore your Calling-Vocation 32. Marketing Plan

33. Marketing Resources 34. Track your Referral Sources 35. A Guide to Unmanaged Care 36. How to Free Yourself from Managed Care 37. A Step by Step Guide for the Managed-Care-Free Practice 38. How to Answer the Question, "Are you on my managed care panel?" 39. The Managed-Care-Free Educational Brochure 40. The Managed-Care-Free Private Practice Kit 41. It Can be Done: Essentials for a Managed-Care-Free Practice Resources for Managed-Care-Free Practices Section 4: Ethics, Risk Management & Boundaries 42. General Ethical-Clinical Guidelines 43. Standard of Care 44. Boundaries in Psychotherapy 45. Dual Relationships 46. Ethical Risk Management Section 5: Effective Therapy & Critique of Psychotherapy 47. Effective Psychotherapy 48. Critique of Therapy - Resources 49. Coaching 50. Principles of Effective Therapy & Critique 51. DSM: Diagnosing for Money and Power 52. DSM vs. The Village: Alternative Model Section 6: Burnout and Calling 53. Taking Care of the Caretakers 54. Burnout - Selected Bibliography 55. Preventing Therapists' Burnout Additional Resources